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Microsoft releases Content Management System

Posted on August 11, 2001

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by Martin Burns (MartinB)

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Martin Burns

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According to TheRegister, Microsoft have released a Content Management System.

As with many Microsoft products, this isn't a product of intensive development in Redmond - they went out and bought NCompass who had a CMS called Resolution. The big news is that they've dropped the price from Resolution's per server list price of $79,000 to $39,901.

Unsurprisingly, it only runs on Win2k (Resolution also ran on NT4).

Now while this won't actually be a major competitor to the likes of Vignette and Broadvision (Resolution wasn't either), it may herald a difficult time for lower cost CMSs (particularly in MS hosted environments) such as Mediasurface.

Martin Burns has been doing this stuff since Netscape 1.0 days. Starting with the communication ends that online media support, he moved back through design, HTML and server-side code. Then he got into running the whole show. These days he's working for these people as a Project Manager, and still thinks (nearly 6 years on) it's a hell of a lot better than working for a dot-com. In his Copious Free Time™, he helps out running a Cloth Nappies online store.

Amongst his favourite things is ZopeDrupal, which he uses to run his personal site. He's starting to (re)gain a sneaking regard for ECMAscript since the arrival of unobtrusive scripting.

He's been a member of evolt.org since the very early days, a board member, a president, a writer and even contributed a modest amount of template code for the current site. Above all, he likes evolt.org to do things because it knowingly chooses to do so, rather than randomly stumbling into them. He's also one of the boys and girls who beervolts in the UK, although the arrival of small children in his life have knocked the frequency for 6.

Most likely to ask: Why would a client pay you to do that?

Least likely to ask: Why isn't that navigation frame in Flash?

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CMS Server great

Submitted by anselm on August 13, 2001 - 05:28.

i have already played with the trial good product! :) works good in relation with commerce server 2000 you also need w2k server, sql server

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Submitted by MartinB on February 27, 2002 - 11:57.

It looks like you'll need quite a few other pieces of kit to get it to really sing - the average licensing cost you're looking at for a sensible install is around US$150,000, with hardware and hosting on top. There's more info from Forrester and Gartner, although you'll have to pay for it (not very much, though, compared with the cost of getting it wrong).

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