You need to get a very good list of your "business needs" to start with. Starting to install and configure a particular CMS (and I use the term loosely...) is a waste if you don't know:
who your content-providers are and their technology strengths (and tolerance levels!!)
who your end-user community is and how "involved" they will be in the site (forums? community-driven content? story submission?...) [don't get caught in the "needed feature" vs. "cool factor" trap!]
who your admins are and their technical strengths/weaknesses (are these the same people who will be configuring the system? are they coders or do they only work from white-books and red-books ?, etc...)
how much time is devoted to adminstration of the system?
a single look-and-feel template for the whole site or different sections get their own template(s)?
do you want to separate development, test and production?
how much time is devoted to enhancing the system?
what skillsets are available for enhancing the system?
Once we listed out these, we found that a number of the CMSes I see people talking about here fell off our list.
We don't want to have users "logging in" to our company website. We don't need/want forums/blogs/galleries. We need a simple-to-use content-provider interface for people with little-to-no webskills. We want separate servers for development, testing and production. We have a very skilled set of admins, but they don't want to be tweaking the system every day.
Based on our evaluation period, we believe we are going forward with Bricolage. It is not an easy system to get into, but its power and flexibility is fantastic and it has a fairly supportive community.
This type of thing is why I'll never work a salaried position again.
This is an over-generalization. I know there are companies which pay a fixed salary and who do not abuse their relationship with the employees. My currently career path has me in a job with some crunch weeks, some "get on a plane in two hours" weeks, but after these crunches we are given the freedom to work less hours in off-weeks (and we're scheduled to have some off-weeks to catch up on training, refresh batteries, etc...)
Now mind you, my management team is not in the U.S.... hmmmm...
We have customers running ASA with 4,000+ simultaneous users, 50 GB+ databases.
I strongly suggest you consider taking a look at newer versions of ASA. There is a Developer Edition of 9.x available (the engine can run a 5.x database file without modifications!)
BTW: SA 5.x also can support much bigger loads that you let on...however the applications and/or schema "design" may be where the limitations you experience are coming from. I can write bad code that will cripple any RDBMS...it ain't that tough:->
I read somewhere the average database driven web site is an average of 10-20 gigs
I'd love to know the source of that one. I find it hard to believe that there are more than a few thousand websites that are larger than 1 GB. The vast majority of websites are running on "virtual host" sites and are typically less than 20 MB in size. Most companies that have websites don't have the time, knowledge or money to do more than throw up some basic "brochures".
MS SQL Server is the result of a collapsed partnership between Sybase (Sybase SQL Server) and Microsoft. MS wanted an RDBMS on Win32, Sybase brought the source code. MS walked away with a new product and took an existing product name (thus Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise).
I know, you are shocked. MS didn't innovate technology that they brand???:-)
understands issues on both sides and is able to logically analyze those issues and "pick a side" so to speak.
I sure hope that they start teaching politics in US schools...maybe then people will understand that there are numbers higher than 2.
Right vs. wrong? Left vs. right? Black vs. white? Elephant vs. donkey?
There are more than two sides to most issues. The problem with politics (at least in the western world) is that the populace can't understand (or doesn't want to think about) more than two sides.
Pro-choice vs. pro-life? Not that simple.
Capital punishment vs. life-long imprisonment? Not that simple.
...the longer you keep calling him "President", the longer he'll keep believing it.;-)
Reminds me of something that happened to my father a few years back. He was a high school principal and was giving a tour of the school to some board trustees on a Monday morning. They came around the back of the school where someone had sparypainted "Mr. Smith is gay" on the wall over the weekend.
Without missing a beat, my father turned to the delegation and said "See that? They do indeed have respect for me...why else would they paint Mr. Smith??"
I have only had three "blue screens" on my wife's XP box, but the number of times that it spontaneously reboots (especially when using not-so-quick-switch)... it is mindboggling.
The difference is that when the contract comes up for bid, they will both have the source code involved and a better chance of finding competing contractors able to work with that code.
Nice in theory, unfortunately this point of view has removed politics from the government...
By your logic it would be acceptable for RedHat to cancel the 50 server RHEL contract.
No, by what I wrote it would be valid (in this hypothetical case) for RH to not offer the company any new releases of EL. RH is not obligated in any way, ever, to release new versions nor to sell them to any given customer. (This last sentence is not hypothetical).
The singles market has died because people couldn't be bothered paying that money for something they'll hear in constant rotation ad infinitum for up to two months before release.
...or possibly because they can listen to any Clear Channel station for their ad infinitum hit... (ad nosium, ad crapium, ad over-hypeium, ad shootmenowium...)
In order to get the software, you have to have a subscription. The subscription is a contract between Sveasoft and you. Because you cannot get the GPL software without this contract, the contracts terms impact your use of, and rights to the GPL software. Thus the two contracts are linked.
However, as others have pointed out, your subscription is only terminated after you have received the GPL'ed software (and redistributed it).
You are not barred from getting the GPL'ed software for which your subscription is terminated....you are barred from getting future releases of the software.
So the restriction is not on your rights to redistribute the GPL'ed s/w you have received, which does not (directly) violate the letter of the GPL (spirit is a whole other thing).
However, if they choose (and choice is the important part here!) to sign an additional agreement that places a condition on redistribution, that's between them and the customer.
This is one of the more interesting GPL conversations in MANY years.
Do you believe the following is valid based on what you've said above?
You may buy my GPL'ed software for $50 if you sign this additional condition that you won't distribute the source code
You may buy my GPL'ed software for $10,000,000
[BTW: I don't question that the latter is a valid point on its own, because it is]
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I'm a geek, not a nerd...the difference? Geek's bathe.
- who your content-providers are and their technology strengths (and tolerance levels!!)
- who your end-user community is and how "involved" they will be in the site (forums? community-driven content? story submission?
...) [don't get caught in the "needed feature" vs. "cool factor" trap!]
- who your admins are and their technical strengths/weaknesses (are these the same people who will be configuring the system? are they coders or do they only work from white-books and red-books ?, etc...)
- how much time is devoted to adminstration of the system?
- a single look-and-feel template for the whole site or different sections get their own template(s)?
- do you want to separate development, test and production?
- how much time is devoted to enhancing the system?
- what skillsets are available for enhancing the system?
Once we listed out these, we found that a number of the CMSes I see people talking about here fell off our list.We don't want to have users "logging in" to our company website. We don't need/want forums/blogs/galleries. We need a simple-to-use content-provider interface for people with little-to-no webskills. We want separate servers for development, testing and production. We have a very skilled set of admins, but they don't want to be tweaking the system every day.
Based on our evaluation period, we believe we are going forward with Bricolage. It is not an easy system to get into, but its power and flexibility is fantastic and it has a fairly supportive community.
Now mind you, my management team is not in the U.S. ... hmmmm...
But the college kid, from a relatively afluent background, who has never worked ... for longer then 3 months at a time ??
Has anyone noticed an absolute lack of "SCO headlines" since May? http://www.sco.com/company/news/ Really wicked change in PR-direction, is it not?
Boy, that's a whole lotta redundancy...
"10 years" is the equivalent to the last 5% of any given software project
We have customers running ASA with 4,000+ simultaneous users, 50 GB+ databases.
I strongly suggest you consider taking a look at newer versions of ASA. There is a Developer Edition of 9.x available (the engine can run a 5.x database file without modifications!)
BTW: SA 5.x also can support much bigger loads that you let on...however the applications and/or schema "design" may be where the limitations you experience are coming from. I can write bad code that will cripple any RDBMS...it ain't that tough:->
It even has the Database Migration Wizard (or better yet, you can call sa_migrate() directly).
BTW: what is an "OSS type site" ?
I know, you are shocked. MS didn't innovate technology that they brand??? :-)
I sure hope that they start teaching politics in US schools...maybe then people will understand that there are numbers higher than 2.
Right vs. wrong? Left vs. right? Black vs. white? Elephant vs. donkey?
There are more than two sides to most issues. The problem with politics (at least in the western world) is that the populace can't understand (or doesn't want to think about) more than two sides.
Pro-choice vs. pro-life? Not that simple.
Capital punishment vs. life-long imprisonment? Not that simple.
Same-sex marriage? ... actually, that one is easy.
Reminds me of something that happened to my father a few years back. He was a high school principal and was giving a tour of the school to some board trustees on a Monday morning. They came around the back of the school where someone had sparypainted "Mr. Smith is gay" on the wall over the weekend.
Without missing a beat, my father turned to the delegation and said "See that? They do indeed have respect for me...why else would they paint Mr. Smith??"
I have only had three "blue screens" on my wife's XP box, but the number of times that it spontaneously reboots (especially when using not-so-quick-switch)... it is mindboggling.
It's not a problem if you are using a secure browser (and not opening attachments).
No, by what I wrote it would be valid (in this hypothetical case) for RH to not offer the company any new releases of EL. RH is not obligated in any way, ever, to release new versions nor to sell them to any given customer. (This last sentence is not hypothetical).
However, as others have pointed out, your subscription is only terminated after you have received the GPL'ed software (and redistributed it).
You are not barred from getting the GPL'ed software for which your subscription is terminated....you are barred from getting future releases of the software.
So the restriction is not on your rights to redistribute the GPL'ed s/w you have received, which does not (directly) violate the letter of the GPL (spirit is a whole other thing).
I think $49 could be argued to be "reasonable".
Do you believe the following is valid based on what you've said above?
[BTW: I don't question that the latter is a valid point on its own, because it is]