January 4th, 2010 by Janus Boye
13 Comments| bcsositpf, microsoft, open source, plone, umbraco
Despite much hype we did not see a breakthrough for open source CMS last year. When I launched the discussion last year, we received some great comments, e.g. on intellectual property and warranty, suggesting that in some cases open source is not the right decision.
In the past decade, several governments have issued statements with strong …
December 20th, 2009 by Peter Sejersen
No Comments| cms, cms selection, plone, success, wcm
Selecting a new vendor for a CMS project doesn’t have to be a long and complicated process. In fact, one month can be enough if you don’t overcomplicate things and have made the necessary preparations.
One of our customers, The National Board of Social Services (Servicestyrelsen in Danish), recently managed to get through the process in …
August 12th, 2009 by Janus Boye
44 Comments| alfresco, cms, cms selection, cms watch, day, drupal, ektron, episerver, fatwire, forrester, gartner, joomla, microsoft, plone, sitecore, tridion, typo3, umbraco, wordpress
Selecting the right CMS is not an easy task with; there is in excess of 1,000 vendors in the very dynamic CMS marketplace. Unfortunately industry analysts tend to evaluate too many vendors for the needs of most buyers. Consider CMS Watch which has 42 systems in their Web CMS Report and Gartner with 18 …
July 21st, 2009 by Janus Boye
7 Comments| cms selection, government, plone, selection
According to the Danish Government, Plone is a good CMS. It seems unfair and unhealthy for competition when the government has a favoured system, whether open source or not, in particular in a marketplace as young and dynamic as the CMS marketplace.
To quote Shakespeare: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”.
The statement on …
February 5th, 2009 by Janus Boye
No Comments| google, open source, plone
The co-founder of the popular open source CMS Plone, Alexander Limi, yesterday announced on his blog that he has left Google. To quote:
I’ll be surprised if they manage to hold on to their top talent in the User Experience division for more than a year or two. That part of the organization is slowly rotting …