Jon On Tech

The CMS Vendor Meme has now had 24 responses, including some of the large ECM players. The results are tabulated here with commentary, and make very interesting reading.

It would be ideal if the vendors’ licensing models allowed us to harmoniously achieve all the goals of our systems architecture. The sad reality, however, is that the licensing model sometimes means that we have to sabotage our architectures in order to save a fortune on licensing.

There are two worlds out there, in which the term CMS means something different. Most of the world, and my world. To most of the world, it seems to mean blog platforms, Drupal and Joomla! My “web generation” is extremely uncomfortable even calling WordPress a Content Management System.

A post from Kas Thomas at CMS Watch has inspired Day to start an intriguing CMS fight. This is Part II of the story, which covers the entry of another 15 vendors. It’s all happening.

Now that we know most vendors use their own product for their site, we test the home pages for many major vendors. We need to ask why so few of them have markup that validates and discuss possible reasons.

A post from Kas Thomas at CMS Watch has inspired Day to start an intriguing CMS fight. I think everyone is going to wade in. This is Part I of the story.

The recent demise of the RedDot brand as part of the OpenText aquistion leads to thoughts on the future of CMS products after an acquisition, the names of those products, and various other thoughts.

EPiServer Partner Day 2009 was an informative, well attended event in Stockholm. Over 1100 people braved the snow to hear about EPiServer’s plans for global domination, and drink beer. Jon’s thoughts of the event, speakers, people and awards are given here.

The good people at CMS Watch have released another version of their Subway Vendor Map. I love these things, but have a few comments.