Re: [cmpros] How many CMS are there?

This is somehow amusing
this is one of the main reasons why cm pros started.....
we already have a good beginning somewhere, its called the cms feature 
comparator
(on content wire and elsewhere)

I have never tested its accuracy, faithfulness, usefulness
I would suggest we start a user study of the current cms comparator
to test hows its doing, and we could make a plan to develop it from there

we may have to develop more facets and find a mechanism to ensure the 
information is marginally accurate
(add a big disclaimer)

but the project is fascinating, need to be done

about Adrian point, so many that cannot be counted...
well some cm are not 'commercial' which means they were not intended to be 
used by others
so that could be a facet (for sale, free to use at your own risk, will 
consider licensing under the right terms etc)

only commercial ones are pushed into the open, it is implied that commercial 
means under business terms ( have support, documentation, a contractual 
agreement) it does not mean that the others are not cms, it just means
they are not competitive in commercial terms

being commercial - that includes open source - means that I expect a level 
of service with the technology
am I right?


Pdm


>
> What would be enormously helpful, I suspect, is to have the systems sorted
> by some categorization scheme (hey, we have the taxonomy folks ...), which
> means making some sort of decisions around what the categories are.

Or
> perhaps having a dynamic way that, the way vendors can add their features
> in, they can add a category if they've created a hybrid product that 
> doesn't
> fit neatly into one category or another. From a technical communication
> point of view, a CMS that handles technical publication content has 
> certain
> features built in that you won't find in a CMS meant for Web content. And
> catalogue producers ... it may be publication content, but it's more 
> Product
> Information Management ... perhaps this CM would fit into two categories.
> And then there's the newer phenomenon of blogging software becoming robust
> enough to become a type of Web CMS for micro businesses. Complicated, but
> better than looking at a list of 2,000 and feeling overwhelmed at the
> prospect of doing any kind of justice to one's research.
>
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