[thelist] RE: News.com gets a facelift

martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com
Wed Jan 24 11:37:35 CST 2001


Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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>Madhu Menon wrote:
> While they still *are* using Vignette for their CMS, they're not totally
> happy with it. They're building their own CMS using JSP from scratch. I
> don't have any idea of when they'll actually roll it out though. Possibly

>I think its interesting that they're spending a considerable amount of
>time and money on re-inventing the wheel. There are plenty of CMS
>systems out there that cost less than what it must cost for a group of
>developers for 9 - 15 months, not to mention the ones that are free.

Absolutely. And you're then exposing yourself to quite substantial risk -
with a bought product, someone else has already paid for the QA
(although see also the "Never buy 1.0 of *anything*" doctrine).

The only people with a genuine excuse to write their own CMS are
large software houses with an established middleware product set
who would look *really* lame if they bought in someone else to develop
a system using their own kit, or worse, a competitor's. This is why
Allaire developed Spectra... (or did they realise the external potential
first, and just alpha-test it on their own site? Ray?)

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   <dt>Dogfood (v)</dt>
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      To use one's own company's kit - eg MS staff using WinCE,
      not Palm, Allaire using Spectra, etc
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>But then I take a look at the custom CMS that runs our evolt site and
>shut up.

Yeah, +1 on that. But I wouldn't use it on an enterprise scale.
Cheers
Martin


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