Re: New CMS Forum

At Sunday 1/4/04 10:27 PM, Bob Doyle wrote:
>I would like to announce a new forum site meant to provide a structured 
>home for valuable information gleaned from many of the threads on this 
>cms-list.
>
>See http://www.cms-forum.org.
>
>Your comments and criticisms are most welcome.
>
>Besides key topics from the cms-list (http://cms-forum.org/?q=forum/7), it 
>will offer vendor forums
>  (to concentrate advice and criticism on specific products),
>news feed aggregation, and blog feeds aggregation.
>
>Initially we will provide forum topics for the major CMS vendors 
>(http://cms-forum.org/?q=forum/6).

         IMO, this is half-assed backwards. You ought to start with the 
major *open source* (OS) CMS's because OS always _eventually_ prevails over 
proprietary software. The most promising of the OS CMS's are Plone, 
OpenCMS, and Bricolage. Covering proprietary software is a mistake because 
many forms of such software are doomed -- OS will destroy them.

>We started with the two dozen analyzed in Tony Byrne's CMS Report 
>(http://www.cmswatch.com/TheCMSReport/). Later we will include forums for 
>all the products in the CMSML database (currently about 75, 
>http://www.cmsml.org). Then we will start threads for all the CMS listed 
>at CMS Review (about 300). Our ultimate goal will be to include the 
>several hundred more in the DMOZ/Google categories on content management 
>(http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Site_Management/Content_Management/).

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