Comments on: Newsrooms and CMS Selection http://www.giovannicalabro.com/2009/02/newsroom-cms-selection/ Giovanni Calabro's Thoughts on User Experience Et Al. Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:22:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Giovanni Calabro http://www.giovannicalabro.com/2009/02/newsroom-cms-selection/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Giovanni Calabro Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:45:19 +0000 http://incessantrantings.giovannicalabro.com/?p=281#comment-21 With the other author mentioned in the entry...yes. It was a proprietary system put in place in a fairly painful manner. Thankfully there were much smarter people in place to make it work. As a line of work I now architect and design products using many across the board. I've worked on everything from Drupal and Joomla through Vignette and SDL Tridion. I see your point about more support being available for open source products. The danger I see however, is hiring a support company to rectify a problem that might be a result of customizations rather than hiring the company who's product it is. There's much more at stake for a product company to service you appropriately (My company screws up and I lose potential reoccurring license costs for example). Therefore I'm much more comfortable leveraging non opensource companies to support their products. With the other author mentioned in the entry…yes. It was a proprietary system put in place in a fairly painful manner. Thankfully there were much smarter people in place to make it work.

As a line of work I now architect and design products using many across the board. I’ve worked on everything from Drupal and Joomla through Vignette and SDL Tridion.

I see your point about more support being available for open source products. The danger I see however, is hiring a support company to rectify a problem that might be a result of customizations rather than hiring the company who’s product it is. There’s much more at stake for a product company to service you appropriately (My company screws up and I lose potential reoccurring license costs for example). Therefore I’m much more comfortable leveraging non opensource companies to support their products.

]]> By: jason http://www.giovannicalabro.com/2009/02/newsroom-cms-selection/comment-page-1/#comment-22 jason Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:57:08 +0000 http://incessantrantings.giovannicalabro.com/?p=281#comment-22 many open source cms's are starting to have support - drupal being a fine example. many companies exist that provide support for drupal. did you ever decide on a cms? many open source cms’s are starting to have support – drupal being a fine example. many companies exist that provide support for drupal.

did you ever decide on a cms?

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