TYPO3 at the Cebit: AOE media CEO Kian T. Gould took a fascinated audience of Cebit 2009 visitors through the implementation of a TYPO3 Web CMS for such a commercially critical business as Cisco WebEx:
There was quite a crush at Hall 6 for the Cebit 2009 Open Source Forum as AOE media CEO and company founder Kian T. Gould presented his vision of "Global Enterprise Web Solutions with TYPO3", and in particular the successful implementation of a new TYPO3-based Web Enterprise Content Management System for the Cisco Systems subsidiary WebEx.
Responding to an invitation from Linux Magazine, Mr. Gould impressed his audience with the ease in which, within the briefest of time periods, a solution was developed and installed with which Cisco could manage and maintain their global distribution of WebEx portals from a single Enterprise Web CMS. Alongside the advantage of easy adaptation to existing infrastructures or applications such as translation programs, Kian T. Gould also laid particular importance on the significantly better ROI that can be attained by implementing solutions based on Open Source programs.
The interest generated among his listeners was made clear during question time, when the security advantages of TYPO3 in comparison with standard commercial solutions were addressed. Gould pointed out that the constant drive to further refine this license-free CMS by a large number of competent experts within the TYPO3 Community worldwide is the best guarantee that security breaches will be healed as soon as they appear. Indeed, no other system handles issues of security as professionally as TYPO3. But of course, any software, whether commercial or unlicensed, can fall prey to attacks through loopholes that then have to be closed. Yet as Gould remarked to this audience of company decision-makers from all over Europe and beyond, the track record of some commercial providers in this respect, with their often sluggish "security patch" response to threats, is hardly reassuring. In contrast, Open Source Software developer communities respond 24/7 to evolving situations: an important edge when it comes to security.
