The new Umbraco release is bound to be a huge improvement over the latest version (4.0.something). 18 months of work has been spent on this huge improvement and loads of new features and enhancements are there. You want all the details? Click on the following link:

http://umbraco.codeplex.com/releases/view/42419

As good as programming goes at Umbraco, as bad marketing goes. Don’t get me wrong, I clearly love what the Robin Hoods of CMS are doing and we appreciate working with the product for over 4 years now… but for **** sake why call it version 4.1?!?

Any other company would call this major overhaul a new version. They might even put a version in between for marketing and sales purposes. But Umbraco will call this version 4.1. Sure, there’s a technical explanation for this but come on… how would it sell when Aston Martin improved its DB9 to… DB9.1? People might go and wonder about the DB9 had some bugs on it.

Last year I had a chance to meet up with the Umbracian in Denmark and I must say I have a lot of respect for those guys. Niels Hartvig contributed over 5 years without much returns and is now finally hitting the big stage with his team. Achieving this with open-source Microsoft technology is just outstanding and also proves he can give developers what they want. However, when hitting the bigger stage you might also want to give marketeers what they want. And that, my fellow Umbracians, would be the cherry on the cake.