RE: CMS Differentiating Factors

Hi,
are you still willing to share your spreadsheets?
 
chris

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Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 12:40 PM
To: John
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Subject: Re: [CMS] CMS Differentiating Factors


Hi John,

My recent exhaustive count found 1880 CMS listed on a couple of dozen
directories of CMS around the world.

I also made a careful study of three directories which list the key
differentiating features of a CMS.

These directories are at 
http://www.allesovercontentmanagement.nl/
http://www.cmsmatrix.org
http://www.cmsreview.com

There is also a modest overlap of features here, so I have collected them
all (over 300!) in a spreadsheet, to be used to build a more comprehensive
list for the CMSML (a markup language for CMS) at http://www.cmsml.org.

We hope the results will help with the very difficult problem of CMS
selection and evaluation.

I will be glad to send these spreadsheets to anyone interested in this
research.

Bob Doyle

John wrote: 

Hello again,

I understand that there are something like 1300 CMS products on the market
and only about 30% featureset overlap between these products.  This would
seem to make it almost impossible to select a CMS.  I am doing general
research on this subject, but I am interested in input from experienced
users, developers and administrators regarding the most important features
which differentiate one CMS from another, from very generic things like
support or enforcement for web standards and accessibility to very concrete
and specific things such as support for XSL 2.0.  Feel free to include
information about specific vendors, but I am mostly looking for more generic
input.  I wouldn't mind if this turns into a general discussion on CMS
selection criteria, though I'm sure that has been covered elsewhere.

Best regards,

   -John



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