We're definitely looking at Open Source, rather than commercial. It's not really about the cost -- it's about trying to stay consistent with our philosophy of development and because, frankly, it think intelligently built Open Source software ends up working better in the long run. The accelerated pace of change in web technologies just exacerbates the problem of keeping up in a commercial environment.
My goal is to be able to provide easier access to content updating, as opposed to creating a whole new hierarchy for navigation. Also, we need to be able to better support localization and that's an area that CMS really helps simplify the process of deployment. We get a pretty hefty amount of traffic, so I also want to make sure whatever we use can handle the load and remain responsive. That's the biggest concern I have for a CMS system -- I haven't seen an Open Source option that has the same capabilities as commercial packages in areas like load balancing, failure across servers, etc. Drupal has some work being financed by Google's Summer of Code in this specific area, and it has some reasonably large deployments already, which is one of the things that appeals to me about it. Rest assured, whatever we do, we're not looking to make radical changes to the website... just make it easier to update and improve the content. -- JimC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JimC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34468 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
