September 18, 2009

re: Open-source vs. commercial grade Web content management (follow-up to interview by Vanessa Voltolina of Folio Magazine)

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Vanessa Voltolina in her recent article on the merits of open-source and commercial-grade Web content management systems. I thought I would supplement that article with a more fleshed out list of pros and cons for each.

You might also catch Stephen Powers' new report on "The Four Decision Factors For Open Source Enterprise Content Management", for which I also had the pleasure of participating in an interview.

Commercial-grade Web Content Management systems:

Open source Web content management

The overall message here in this fairly unstructured list of pros and cons is that if you're going to pick a proprietary system over an open-source one, make sure that you build into your selection process that the strengths of either should be IN that product you pick. Don't assume that you'll be getting all the benefits of a commercial product that I specify above just because its commercial, and vice versa.

And good luck. I'll welcome feedback as usual...

Posted at 04:56 pm by Joseph Bachana


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