What I am curious about it why you are even bothering to try and enter the CMS market. First, the CMS market is crowed with well established players. Second, many enterprises are moving away from a stand-alone CMS to a SES (smart enterprise suite) because of interoperability issues. Third, users tend to hate using a browser based content management system. Fourth, and most importantly, there are too many idiots selling what they call a CMS to the point where if you actually have a worth while product you have to educate the customer on what your product really is. I mean shit; I saw a less than 1500 word article on Evolt.org the other day on how to implement your own CMS.
-Matt > -----Original Message----- > From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 8:32 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Content Management > > >> Compare something like CommonSpot or Spectra to one CM > >> product I saw which submits rich text content from MS Word > >> for inclusion in a predesigned html template using _SMTP_ > >> from _within_ MS Word. > > > > Or, for that matter, just compare CommonSpot to Spectra - > > they're radically different, I think. Spectra is essentially a bunch > > of code, which you can use to build your CMS applications. > > CommonSpot, on the other hand, essentially runs out-of-the-box, > > although you can certainly customize it. There's more of an > > up-front cost to CommonSpot than Spectra ($25k vs #15k, I > > think) but the total cost to deploy a CommonSpot solution > > is typically a fraction of that to deliver a similar Spectra solution. > > I've (unfortunately?) had little exposure to Spectra and was making the > comparison between the two as both being browser-based (?) solutions as > compared to the afforementioned -- what do I even call that?! ... > > Though you make an excellent point. And this is with two companies who > primarily shared the market of ColdFusion shops, not even scratching the > surface of other industry or user-type focused products, like CMS which > target print media companies like newspapers and magazines or CMS that > focus > on corporate intranets or CMS which target small businesses and bank on > volume. > > And often times all of these variations only help to confuse rather than > clarify the environment in which CM packages are bought and sold ... imho > when you're shopping for a reasonably new technology (5yrs? 10yrs?) is > about > the worst time in the world for this sort of confusion (or for that matter > when I'm trying to sell it -- how do I define my target audience? etc.), > though I suppose this is liable to be the state of things in the > forseeable > future... > > I guess it keeps me busy. :) > > Isaac > > www.turnkey.to > 954-776-0046 > > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
