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

I am compelled to answer...

Ektron is one of the only commercial CMS vendors that has been profitable in
the last several years (Although I'll concede that Microsoft has been
profitable too ;^).  We have been profitable for the last three years out of
the six years we've been in business.

We have more customer installations of our CMS software than any other
commercial CMS vendor.

Look at the other major CMS systems on the market - Interwoven, Vignette,
Documentum, Silk Road, Medseek, Fatwire, and others - and look at the
WYSIWYG HTML editor control.  That's an OEM version of eWebEditPro or
eWebEditPro+XML, Ektron's HTML and XML editing controls respectively.  So
every time one of those CMS solutions is sold an Ektron product goes with
it.

Ektron products are used in 850 of the top Fortune 1000 companies.  We have
strong partners across the globe and our CMS is deployed on every continent.
(Okay, I'm not sure about Antarctica.)

We aren't Microsoft but our viability is beyond question.

Tim



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Daniel Reardon
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:57 AM
To: Jerry Santelli; [email protected]
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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