Had an interesting meeting at work yesterday. We have a team of
consultants from, er, "a well-known Fortune 500 management-consulting
company" poking around these days, making recommendations on
"proposed architectures for integrated publishing", or whatever.
Now, I wasn't optimistic that anything useful would come out of this
process; it's been my painful experience in the past that consultants
of this kind usually end up recommending hugely expensive and grossly
inappropriate proprietary solutions... a waste of everyone's time and
money.
Anyway, so these guys were questioning me about my current publishing
architecture, and my plans for the future. At one point I said, "I've
been experimenting with a platform that you probably haven't heard
of, which I like a lot... it's called Cocoon."
Well. These guys glanced at one another and smiled, then one of them
explained that they too were big Cocoon fans, had in fact developed a
large production site using it... so we got along fine after that :)
One of the guys made some interesting points about the FUD aspects of
recommending an open-source product like Cocoon... noted that his
approach was to "sneak it in with IBM Websphere; the client is happy
because he's 'bought IBM', and I'm happy because Websphere and Cocoon
have basically emerged out of the same developer communities, so they
integrate tightly."
Anyway, sounds like Cocoon is making inroads in the corporate IT
world.
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Brent Eades, Almonte, Ontario
http://www.almonte.com
http://www.bankofcanada.ca
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