[thelist] Competitors of Microsoft Content Management Server

Ken Schaefer Ken at adOpenStatic.com
Wed Apr 20 03:09:48 CDT 2005


Hi there,

I think Vignette's dropped a bit in profile over the last couple of years.
I've never had any experience utilising it, but the overall impression I get
was that it was overpriced for what you got - it was difficult to bend it to
your will so to speak.

Another competitor not mentioned here is Interwoven's Teamsite, which is used
at a few large places that I know. Again, I have experience with the backend
infrastructure.

IBM also have a CMS product that comes in a couple of flavours that runs on
DB2, however I don't think that's very popular outside Big Blue shops.

Microsoft's CMS product has certainly improved substantially since it's early
incarnations. Whether it's what you need is something, unfortunately, I can't
help you with. However there are a number of case studies on the MS website
about how Microsoft uses CMS internally to run the microsoft.com site.

Cheers
Ken

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: bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Burhan Khalid
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: Subject: Re: [thelist] Competitors of Microsoft Content Management Server
: 
: Ken Schaefer wrote:
: > $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.
: 
: I'm not worried about the price too much, since the budget for this
: project is quite healthy.
: 
: My concern is that everyone seems to be singing and dancing about the
: CMS system, and I was a bit surprised that no one brought up other
: systems, like say Vigenette.  Two suppliers that I spoke with both
: offered a MS CSM-based solution; one mentioned Word integration as a big
: selling point with their other clients.
: 
: Maybe I missed the boat on Microsoft's CMS?
: 
: >
: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: > : 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.
: >
: 
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