From this developer's experience, I would say the convenience of a SAAS CMS is offset by future risk... on doing a brief tour of this offering it doesn't appear to be particularly easy to export a site from BC. BC looks nice, frankly, but what happens if Adobe decides again to turn off the BC switch or nudge users to yet another service? How easy would it be to migrate the legacy site into another CMS? http://blog.mogulmarketing.com/2010/04/adobe-folds-incontext-editing-into.html
The maintenance effort to patch the core CMS and 3rd party plugins is a non-trivial consideration, hopefully this will become easier not more cumbersome moving forward. On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send joomla mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of joomla digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: BC vs. Joomla (Donna Marie Vincent) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 06:56:39 -0800 (PST) > From: Donna Marie Vincent <[email protected]> > To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [joomla] BC vs. Joomla > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I believe Adobe BC is a real threat to Joomla. If you read my friend's email, > you DO have control over the design (she's a graphic artist), the ecommerce > has > all the bells, whistles and functionality you could want, and you can *easily* > build any component you need. > > I think one of the biggest hassles with Joomla is keeping up with all the 3rd > party component upgrades. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Stephen Britton <[email protected]> > To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, December 15, 2010 10:12:29 AM > Subject: Re: [joomla] BC vs. Joomla > > How much does BC cost per month? I am also wondering if it is anything > like Yahoo Stores, which I find confusing, difficult to design and > program, and uses code that is not search engine friendly. > > The thing that scares me about these software as a service (SOS) > e-commerce programs is you don't have control over the design and > other features, like being able to connect to certain payment > gateways. Also, what happens if the client wants features like forums > and galleries? > > I personally would stick to Joomla! with Tienda. > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Donna Marie Vincent > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is Adobe Business Catalyst a threat to Joomla!? >> >> I have a colleague who now prefers it to Joomla for her clients. Her >> comments when I asked her about it: >> >> "...it does cost more per month, but I appreciate having tech support and >> upgrades being done by Adobe instead of me installing patches. I like that >> you can do real preview of pages or save drafts of pages for internal review >> before publishing it. And I really like their web apps feature which allows >> you to easily build your own components. So I built a custom portfolio for >> my site, job boards, staff listings, etc. I am also thoroughly impressed >> with their ecommerce so far. I find it really easy to customize will great >> functionality in terms or cross selling, attributes, and grouping products." >> _______________________________________________ >> New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List >> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla >> >> NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online >> http://www.nyphpcon.com >> >> Show Your Participation in New York PHP >> http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php >> > > > > -- > Stephen Britton > Technology Consultant > [email protected] > ph: 914-661-0040 > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.nyphp.org/pipermail/joomla/attachments/20101224/0495354d/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > joomla mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > End of joomla Digest, Vol 48, Issue 18 > ************************************** > -- Terry Kim ************************ Email: [email protected] | Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/terrykim _______________________________________________ New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
