Re: Website CMS questions

> Darrel...am going to resist the temptation to respond to all 
> the blatently inaccurate OS vs Commercial assertions made 
> throughout the email - but one aspect did confuse me;

Well, I couldn't resist the temptation myself. So now I gotta rant...

First of all, I'm just me. A lowly customer of CMS products...who's met
a lot of other lowly customer of CMS products.

My biggest gripe with most commercial CMS products we looked at was a
seemingly huge imbalance between their sales staff and their development
staff. 

Am I prejudiced? Probably. That happens when consumers get burned. ;o)

Seems to me that one main advantage of OS products is 100% of the effort
goes into the product's development. And there are plenty of
vendors/partners that offer full support for OS products, too, so it's
not like choosing an OS product means you are going at it alone
completely blind.

In the end, I think the best CMS is one built to fit an organizations
specific needs. I understand that that isn't always a viable option from
a time/cost standpoint. In the end, however, I doubt a company is going
to find that they can use a CMS product (OS or commercial) out of the
gate with zero customization. 

Again, in the end, this is all MHO. Feel free to disagree...

-Darrel