[thelist] Competitors of Microsoft Content Management Server

[Ken Schaefer]

$75,000 isn't a lot for an enterprise-level solution. If you want all the
features that MS CMS provides and the same scalability you're going to have
to fork out some money. Microsoft CMS now runs most of microsoft.com, so you
can understand the potential scale we're talking here.

That said, I was under the impression that CMS cost about US$7500 for the
standard edition (less if you're on a volume licensing agreement like
Select). If you are looking at $75,000, then I believe you're looking at the
Enterprise Edition of CMS (I believe the Enterprise Edition of CMS costs
about $35,000 or so).

Cheers
Ken

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: From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-
: bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Burhan Khalid
: Subject: [thelist] Competitors of Microsoft Content Management Server
: 
: Hello Everyone:
: 
:    I'm looking for products that are direct competitors of Microsoft's
: Content Management Server; or provide similar functionality.  I'm mainly
: looking for [a] platforms supported (obviously Microsoft's only works on
: Windows) [b] databases supported (from my reading CMS only supports SQL
: Server 2000) and other feature comparisons.
: 
:    I tried to google for a while, but I must not be typing the correct
: keywords.  Can anyone point me to a short list of other products?  I'm
: not looking for open source/free programs -- unless they compare to the
: feature set of CMS.
: 
:    I need this information to compare bids from different software
: houses -- all of them seem to prefer CMS, but their prices are
: rediculous. For example one bid put the cost of external programs north
: of $75,000 -- not including development costs.