RE: [Microsoft-based solution for a portal + CMS system]:Microsoft SharePoint portal + Microsoft CMS ?

...this is interesting - because the word on the street in the UK - one source being a large MS Gold Partner - is that the MS-CMS development team has been dissolved and merged into the Sharepoint team. If it is *not* true then MS need to communicate this more effectively - because the market perception across customers and even their own partners is that MS-CMS is not being developed, the team that were developing it are now part of the Sharepoint team and that customers are being 'pushed' towards Sharepoint Portal and DMS as the MS solution of managing content.....with MS-CMS being something that is pulled out in emergencies when the potential customer digs their heals in and asks for true WCMS....so I can understand where Jerry is coming from on this one....
 
Regards
Steve

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Daniel Reardon [mailto:[email protected]] 
	Sent: Thu 24/02/2005 16:56 
	To: Jerry Santelli; [email protected] 
	Cc: 
	Subject: RE: [CMS] [Microsoft-based solution for a portal + CMS system]:Microsoft SharePoint portal + Microsoft CMS ?
	
	

	Jerry
	
	Unbelievable!!!!!!
	
	Your comments below are 100% , irrefutably incorrect regarding MCMS
	future. We are on the Microsoft Global Advisory Council for Portals
	advising Microsoft on the next version of CMS and SPS right now. I can
	confirm there is further development and a very strong new release is
	being built as I type. Although under NDA, rest assured a very strong
	strategy is in place.
	
	That said Ektron is 100% .NET based. However if you are concerned about
	Microsoft's commitment to CMS (which is entirely unfounded!!!), surely
	you must be equally concerned regarding not just the future of Ektron
	CMS 400, but also Ektron as a company. Let's face it Microsoft are not
	likely to go bust, I'm not so confident about Ektron.
	
	Either way, I guess you choose!!!
	
	-----Original Message-----
	From: [email protected]
	[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jerry Santelli
	Sent: 24 February 2005 16:10
	To: [email protected]
	Subject: RE: [CMS] [Microsoft-based solution for a portal + CMS system]
	:Microsoft SharePoint portal + Microsoft CMS ?
	
	
	I see a lot of people recommending the MS CMS.  We actually chose not to
	use it for clients that require an ASP .NET based CMS based on the fact
	that the product is in maintenance mode for what I have read.  This
	means no further development will be done to the development of the
	product. 
	
	We have used Ektron for client installs where we can write ASP code and
	use the .NET architecture.  They have a CMS built on the .NET framework
	called CMS 400 (http://ektron.com/cms400.aspx).  One thing that is
	attractive to us was the release schedule of new updates and features as
	well as the stability.  When a new version was released we knew that it
	was going to work.  It also has an integration to SharePoint.
	
	Just my 2 cents.
	
	-Jerry
	
	Jerry Santelli
	Fusion Productions
	http://www.fusionproductions.com
	ph: 585-872-1900
	fax: 585-872-2014
	
	
	
	
	
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