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

Hi

Just to confirm that this is also very much the impression in the Danish
market, so I fully agree, that at least Microsoft should communicate their
strategies better. Not just for their own benefit, but in respect to the
customers considering MSCMS.

Best Regards
Kim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Williams
> Sent: 24. februar 2005 19:41
> To: Daniel Reardon; Jerry Santelli; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [CMS] [Microsoft-based solution for a portal + 
> CMSsystem]: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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