Hi Ranga, Am curious, what is your application? What are the requirements?
I have seen huge budgets and staff sizes get little done w/ Vignette. Plus hear horror stories about Vignette and Interwoven on a regular basis on cms-list. Wrote an in-house CMS myself. Wanted to buy one, but CMS products (both Open Source and for $$) tend to be weak on application integration, query and flexible metadata schemas. That said, some products do some pretty neat things with content editing, transformation. Some, like Zope or AxKit, are more or less web site building kits. They have pre-built features, but need integration. Some have great XML support. And so on. Once you have your requirements sketched out, it gets pretty easy to discriminate. One big advantage of Open Source products is that you can actually read the manuals and see what the system actually does. You cannot get a manual from Vignette without forking over at least $250K. Ouch. I am in the process of writing a CMS/portal product. I doubt I'll be ready in time for you to consider it. The only reason I consider entering a mature market is that I have done a few things I was unable to buy (see CMS weaknesses above). I think others may be willing to pay for them, too. Unlike many product categories, rolling your own CMS is actually cheaper and better then shelling out big $$ for the big vendors. hth, Charlie At 04:29 PM 9/20/2002 -0400, you wrote: >I am looking for a content management system. There are many of them on >freshmeat. Wonder if people had experience with them and what the >experiences have been. >Thanks > >---Closing information gaps----- >Ranga Nathan, Reliance Technololgy _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
