[thelist] RE: News.com gets a facelift

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Edward

Most CMSs are database-backed. It's actually quite rare to find a
document-centric
one (Interwoven TeamSite being an exception).

Everything else defines content assets in terms of database records or objects.

Cheers
Martin





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Well, if by 'radical', you mean anything that isn't a 'document'.  I see
in very few CMS packages the ability to handle fluid or relational data,
for instance.  Perhaps this defines the separation between a CMS and a
delivery technology, but I don't think so.

Content for me is much more then documents.  It represents things like
quizzes, polls, datasets like sports statistics, standings, scores,
etc.


martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com wrote:
>
> I don't even think it's a matter of size - if you can extract competitive
> advantage (greater than the cost and risk associated with the development)
> from the way you move content around your enterprise, then you
> may benefit from a custom CMS.
>
> However, many of the existing packages are highly configurable, and will
> take in their stride pretty much all variations on the normal themes. You
> would have to be doing something fundamentally radical to go outside them.



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