Five biggest mistakes in CMS selection. Lisa Welchman has written an article on the five biggest mistakes in CMS selection[Column Two]
Category: Content Management
Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Web Content Management (WCM), Document Management (DM). Whatever you call it this category covers market happenings and lessons learned.
Open Letter to the Community. This is an Open Letter adressed to the Community and to Zope Corporation and the decisionmakers in the New Zope.Org project. [Zope.org]
Even if the debate about what to use for the new Zope.Org site doesn’t interest you, the essay and the discussion thread that follows contains some interesting tidbits about Zope and Plone. If you have played around with Zope but have never tried Plone you have to check it out. If you need a basic CMS with a portal-ish interface it is hard to beat, particularly for zero acquisition cost.
John Robb touts Manila as the only CMS you’ll ever need
Had a long chat with Jupiter’s Matthew Berk this morning. He is the senior analyst that set up the weblog effort (although he doesn’t have a weblog yet) at Jupiter. He’ll probably make the switch to an enterprise weblog product like Manila soon.
We talked mostly about the content management market and how you don’t need to spend tens of thousands of $$ to build a modern, full featured, easy to manage, dynamic Web site. Manila provides almost everything you need out of the box and is a system that can scale to hundreds of thousands of pageviews a day (good enough for 99.99% of all Web sites). [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]
Three new Content Management Briefings. Instead of my usual KM Column, I’ve started off our my CM Briefings series with a bang. Not one, but three small papers on a range of content management issues: Looking towards the future of content managementA look forward to… [Column Two]
Writing your own CMS. David V Rodriguez has released a first draft of his online book Content Management Design, which walks through how to write a custom content management system. Code samples (in PHP) and SQL statements are also included. To quote: This book… [Column Two]
Open Text Buys Eloquent. Collaboration and knowledge management software developer Open Text Corp. announced Thursday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Eloquent Inc., a developer of collaboration add-ons to sales force automation applications, in a cash deal currently valued at $6.7 million. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]
Updating UE [KMWorld] FatWire has a new product coming out.
When installing RightSite 4.3 on IIS running on Win2K SP3, you must verify that the IUSR_<host name> account matches the hostname exactly, otherwise you have to correct the account name and reinstall.