Re: Website CMS questions

Hi Darrel
........the list has thrashed out in the past the differences between OS and Commercial.....and the differences dont change...not intending to re-ignite the topic.....merely point out the logical 'blip' in your argument......but if you want to talk about creating Fear Uncertainty and Doubt ....suggest you read your own email again.......
 
...since you invite me to make my point;
a) you attempt to undermine the value of CMS reviews by suggesting they are written by vendors - not sure where you get your information from to make such asssertions - but it does not reflect my own experience of reviews written by analysts et al - most of them are independant and often contain 'painful' analysis of a products strengths and weaknesses - as a starting point they make very useful 'industry views' as they often take a 'helicopter' view of the market and offer independant perceptions of the way products are evolving. It might not be terribly useful if you are promoting or looking to evaluate an OpenSource solution though - as they do seem to focus on the commercial products - not sure why that is - and of course it would be FUD to offer an opinion - though I can think of a few....
 
b) you suggest that commercial products need as much programming resource as OS ones - comparing which OS to which commercial for one thing ??? good FUD to use your terminology.....but an unhelpful comment unless you are able to be more specific. What does seem to the case is that there are commercial solutions that promote their products on the basis of a large amount of 'out of the box' functionality being available. There are also commercial solutions that resemble more of a 'toolkit' than a solution. I am not an expert in the field of OS solutions - but I am sure there are examples of both 'packaged' OS offerings as well as 'toolkit' OS offerings. The programming input of every product depends on the product - not on it being OpenSource or Commercial....
 
c) finally you suggest that OS solutions are the equal of commercial ones.......if that were really really true - and there was no value offered by a commercial package that was not contained within an OS one........id est they were truly equal (again what are we comparing here ?!? OS WCMS to Commercial ECMS ?!?) - then there would be no commercial vendors for WCMS, DMS, ECMS - or any software product come to think of it......and the world would be using OpenSource solutions for everything.........(hmmmmm)
Rgds
Steve
 
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From: [email protected] on behalf of Austin, Darrel
Sent: Tue 31/10/2006 15:52
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CMS] Website CMS questions



> ...you start out by 'claiming' that there is no difference
> between OS and Commercial products (hmmmmm)

Did you have a point to make, Steve? If so, please expand on it.
Otherwise, don't bad-mouth OS products via FUD.

-Darrel

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