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Saarbrücken and Paderborn Members of Padeborn University were quick to recognize the potential of the TYPO3 Open Source Content Management System. Easy to learn and use, no license costs and diverse expansion possibilities make TYPO3 the ideal CMS for managing the extensive Internet and Intranet content of the university. However the creation of text content using the standard Rich Text Editor (RTE) is less than optimal, in many cases even user-unfriendly. This has now changed. The integration of the RealObjects editor edit-on® Pro 4 into TYPO3 has provided the university's web authors with a lasting improvement in efficiency.

With the Open Source Content Management System TYPO3 and the comfortable platform-independent editor edit-on® Pro 4, Paderborn University has found an efficient and economical combination that fulfils the requirements of topicality and comfort for administration of websites in a heterogeneous environment.

"The decision to use an Open Source solution for administration of web content at Padeborn university is useful only when it provides a comfortable platform-independent editing capability. edit-on® Pro 4 offers the required functionality and avoids the "license trap" of commercial CMS's." Says Dr. Gudrun Oevel, Director of the Center for IT Services of the Paderborn University.

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About Paderborn University
With around 14.000 students in the 2003/04 winter semester and 1.764 employees, the university is an important educational institution in Germany. Five faculties with 195 professorships, 105 courses of studies and a multitude of innovative research facilities offer optimal study conditions. Over 100 partner colleges worldwide as well as approximately 1.400 foreign students speak for the international nature of the education.

About RealObjects
Founded in May 2000, RealObjects is a pioneering developer of easy-to-use, affordable and quick-to-deploy cross-platform WYSIWYG HTML/XHTML/XML editor solutions, which enable content authoring in Web- and Java-based applications. Its market leading editor applet edit-on Pro perfectly complements web based Content Management, Knowledge Management or e-Learning systems, and streamlines the process of in-browser Web authoring - across platforms, without installation of client-side software.

Headquartered in Saarbrücken, Germany, RealObjects is a privately held software manufacturer with more than 1300 corporate customers in over thirty countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, educational institutions as well as government and non-profit organizations. A strong network of key business alliances, value added resellers and OEM partners has already been established.