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. ----------------------------- Brent Eades, Almonte, Ontario http://www.almonte.com http://www.bankofcanada.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>