[Evangelism] Govt Tender and JCR standard

2009-12-14 Thread Matt Hamilton

Hi All,
  I've got a govt tender in front of me which is mandating:

1. Portal supporting full JSR 170 and a roadmap to support JSR 283  
Content Repository API

2. WCM supporting JSR 168 and JSR 286.

Which effectively mandates a Java solution. One other company has  
asked 'Will you still consider a CMS solution which is not Java  
based?' to which their (rather lame) reply was 'We have an open mind  
and will consider all responses equally'.


Has anyone here managed to come up with a good bit of text which  
suitably answers their question? Something along the lines of 'Plone  
does not support JSR standards as it is not a Java CMS, but we do  
support equivalent standards such as'?


-Matt

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Re: [Evangelism] Govt Tender and JCR standard

2009-12-14 Thread Alexander Limi
It's been a while since I was in the business of answering RFPs, but here's
something I used in an RFP that asked for JSR168:

Plone has a flexible and powerful framework for managing portlets. Portlets
can be developed and shared as separate components and have contracts with
their containing environment, similar to JSR168 and other Java-based
standards. Plone's portlet framework has focused on providing the needed
functionality for Plone. Complying with JSR168 was not considered a priority
in the initial implementation, but is something that can be added if the
deployment requires it. This will add additional development cost.

They usually just ask for these because they are checkbox items that they
have been told to ask for. If you can demonstrate similar functionality, and
have the door open for developing integration with Java-based standards
should they ever need it (which almost always ends up not being a priority),
they usually don't see it as a big deal.

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2009/12/14 Matt Hamilton ma...@netsight.co.uk

 Hi All,
  I've got a govt tender in front of me which is mandating:

 1. Portal supporting full JSR 170 and a roadmap to support JSR 283 Content
 Repository API
 2. WCM supporting JSR 168 and JSR 286.

 Which effectively mandates a Java solution. One other company has asked
 'Will you still consider a CMS solution which is not Java based?' to which
 their (rather lame) reply was 'We have an open mind and will consider all
 responses equally'.

 Has anyone here managed to come up with a good bit of text which suitably
 answers their question? Something along the lines of 'Plone does not support
 JSR standards as it is not a Java CMS, but we do support equivalent
 standards such as'?

 -Matt

 --
 Matt Hamilton   ma...@netsight.co.uk
 Netsight Internet Solutions, Ltd.   Understand. Develop. Deliver
 http://www.netsight.co.uk +44 (0)117 9090901
 Web Design | Zope/Plone Development  Consulting | Co-location | Hosting


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