I've been working specifically with Content Management for the past five years. If you think that it is simply something that is just a buzzword or bullshit that is sold to corporate heads then you don't understand the real value it provides. Being an application developer myself, I think that the largest value of Content Management is appreciated by those who create and manage sites.
It provides abstraction of your content from your look-and-feel and can drastically reduce your development timelines and ease of maintenance. That may not matter if your site is only 5 html pages, but it does when you have thousands of them (and want to use the content on them in different ways).
The problem is that most of the exisiting products (in addition the huge price tag) have been oversold on what they do or even what they are. Remember that the Content Management market is still in it's infancy, so a lot of different compaines entered the space just providing a development platform or by rebranding document/digital asset management products. This left most of the work up to the developers or the profession services (good revenue for the companies selling the software) teams that have to implement them.
What I found led me to the conclusion we really needed some true turn-key solutions. After building about 5 custom Content Management Systems for various large corporations, along with my dev team we've spent the last two years designing and building a commercial product called Conclarity CMS (http://www.conclarity.com), which we are just about to release. It's built in Java using the J2EE framework, every content object is available as XML, and it uses XSL and XHTML for templating.
If anyone is interested in checking it out, I'd be more than happy to give away some free piolit licenses to slashdotters.
Landon Hall President, CTO Lucid DataStreams, Inc.
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I've been working specifically with Content Management for the past five years. If you think that it is simply something that is just a buzzword or bullshit that is sold to corporate heads then you don't understand the real value it provides. Being an application developer myself, I think that the largest value of Content Management is appreciated by those who create and manage sites.
It provides abstraction of your content from your look-and-feel and can drastically reduce your development timelines and ease of maintenance. That may not matter if your site is only 5 html pages, but it does when you have thousands of them (and want to use the content on them in different ways).
The problem is that most of the exisiting products (in addition the huge price tag) have been oversold on what they do or even what they are. Remember that the Content Management market is still in it's infancy, so a lot of different compaines entered the space just providing a development platform or by rebranding document/digital asset management products. This left most of the work up to the developers or the profession services (good revenue for the companies selling the software) teams that have to implement them.
What I found led me to the conclusion we really needed some true turn-key solutions. After building about 5 custom Content Management Systems for various large corporations, along with my dev team we've spent the last two years designing and building a commercial product called Conclarity CMS (http://www.conclarity.com), which we are just about to release. It's built in Java using the J2EE framework, every content object is available as XML, and it uses XSL and XHTML for templating.
If anyone is interested in checking it out, I'd be more than happy to give away some free piolit licenses to slashdotters.
Landon Hall
President, CTO
Lucid DataStreams, Inc.