Matt,
It would be great to get a list of the things Plone would need to do to
be considered categorized as Enterprise by CMS Watch.
If I were to venture a guess, it might be:
1) Gartner and/or Forrester have a good rating on this CMS
2) Have a large vendor behind the product that provides a
warranty/support, similar to RedHat with Linux; training and
integrators, we handle pretty well already, I think.
3) Support for open (and other) standards, such as CMIS and DoD Records
Management, and out-of-box connectors with 'Enterprise' databases that
shops already support, such as Oracle and MS SQL Server, as Alfresco has
done:
a) DoD RM:
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/document-management/alfresco-achieves-dod-501502-records-management-certification-005684.php
b) CMIS:
http://www.optaros.com/blogs/alfresco-drupal-cmis-integration-available
c) Enterprise version of Alfresco supports Enterprise DBMS
4) Other standards that the usually Java-based CMS tools support and
that sometimes appear on Enterprise CMS RFPs I see are JSR-170 (content
repository standard) and JSR-168.
I know it seems silly that a client would basically be locking itself
into Java by mandating that a CMS support these two standards (maybe
that's not true, though), but it is yet another brick in the wall in
getting into the Enterprise market.
This articles illustrates a twist, though, that applies to public sites
and those of a more collaborative, community-contributing nature with
respect to a shift in handling of portlet standards, and I think is a
good response to would-be CMS clients:
http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/luissala/2008/12/09/goodbye-jsr-168-and-wsrp-portlets-hello-opensocial-gadgets/
5) Terabyte storage solutions. Documentum and their DMS-based ilk have
handled this for years. How many large-scale storage Plone case studies
are there on plone.net? Many a time, Plone integrators can't discuss
the few successes that may exist here. Hopefully, this story improves
with BLOB storage in Plone 4.
I'm really interested to hear what their answer is though. Thanks Matt!
Ken
Matt Hamilton wrote:
On 30 Nov 2009, at 09:18 PM, Dylan Jay <d...@pretaweb.com> wrote:
These are awesome points. I think unique and challenging reality is
that plone is both product and a platform but we've been trying
market both through the same channels which is why the message has
sometimes been confusing. Eg we say plone is easy to install but in
reality only in drvrloment mode not production mode so that is really
a platfom message not a product message.
Drupal delivers drupal the product message via it's dot com site and
it's platform message via it's dot org site.
I am also thinking we are better off concentrating on selling plone
as a platform. Not just because we need more develepers and
integrators to gain greater momentum but recently I've been
discovering plone doest sell well as a product.
If someone comes to us (as PretaWeb) and says
A) we need a website that can blah blah then plone is easy to sell.
If a customer comes to us and says
B) we're considering to purchase plone as a cms or intranet it's a
really hard sell.
This is even though we sell training and support and that both
solutions would need to be equally customized. Why?
People picking products tend to pick product companies. Makes them
more comfortable. They feel like they can sue them and that will act
more to help them to protect the reputation of the product etc. Plone
has no product company.
I guess this is why open source works better for platforms than
products.
I'm at a show so only a brief reply now, but just say that CMS Watch
recently recategorised their vendor listings and now split by platform
vs product and by size. IIRC Plone is in the Mid-range Platform
category. Along with Drupal and Typo3. Alfresco is in Upper-range
platform. Joomla and Terminal4 are in Simpler Products.
The CMS Watch stand is near us at the show I'll try and get some
feedback on their views as to what went into categorising them.
-Matt
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