“There are no SAPs of web content management and although IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft have their products, they are lagging rather than dominating the WCM (web content management) market,” says Seth Gottlieb, author of the new Open Source Web Content Management in Java report.

With more than a 1000 CMS solutions on the market (some say more than 2000), and some costing millions to purchase and implement (say nothing of the annual support and licensing costs which can cost up to 30% of the original licensing purchase – invoiced every year!), open source is a booming market. Dozens of open source (free license) solutions are now available with a few leading solutions becoming competitive products to the big name, off-the-shelf vendors.

For an organization looking to escape heavy licensing and support costs offered by commercial CMSs, this report is an important read and guide when considering the appropriate tool for publishing and managing content on your corporate intranet and/or websites. Without the proper and thorough intelligence and analysis of the best possible solutions, selecting a content management tool is often reduced to a dangerous guessing game leading to a potentially perilous and expensive mistake.

”Many buyers in the market now are replacing technology that failed their expectations, are skeptical of commercial products, and are looking for alternatives,” add Gottlieb.

Gottlieb reviews seven leading Java open source WCM solutions with a critical eye from the perspectives of both the business user and techie.

 Source: Open Source Web Content Management in Java, Seth Gottlieb, Content Here

“Buyers of WCM technology quickly become disoriented by the number of options - not just the number of products, but also the different ways to acquire a platform,” adds Gottlieb. “The old question of "build versus buy" seems laughably simplistic when you consider that in addition to buying a commercial product, a company can share the technology by using open source or rent it from a Software as a Service (SaaS) vendor. But whatever they choose, they will be doing a considerable amount of building because the term "out-of-the-box" is generous with most WCM features.”

Among the criteria evaluated, the Open Source WCM report examines each Java solution for:

Ü      solution architecture & development

Ü      integration potential

Ü      usability factors

Ü      presentation & interface

Ü      content editor & WYSIWYG editor

Ü      navigating the repository

Ü      content workflow

Ü      search engine optimization

Ü      user forums (community)

An excerpt of Open Source Web Content Management in Java can be found at http://www.contenthere.net/reports/jwcm-workgroup-1.0-sample.pdf

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An interesting post I did a couple of days ago on the free version of Windows Sharepoint Services and the surprising breadth of available features (from Setting-up a free Sharepoint intranet:

Ü      Announcements

Ü      Calendar

Ü      Contacts

Ü      Tasks

Ü      Projects

Ü      Wiki

Ü      Blog

Ü      Message Board

Ü      Image Library

Ü      Forms Library

Ü      Shared Documents

Ü      Surveys

Ü      Meeting Workspace

Read my full post Setting-up a free Sharepoint intranet at the Intranet Insider blog on Communitelligence.com.

“Collaborative tools are overloading employees and killing productivity—to the tune of $588 billion a year, according to a January study by Basex, a collaboration technologies consulting firm,” writes Brian Watson of CIO Magazine (see Web 2.0: Too Good to Be True?). “It’s the money-saving argument that’s getting pushback lately.”

Web 2.0 does not deliver the ROI, does not live up the hype, and is not even close to being a top priority for senior management (not all, but most).

A CIO Magazines study, Top Technology Priorities for 2008 finds that even techies don’t consider Web 2.0 as a priority. A survey of 250 “top IT executives” from a collection of small, medium and large organizations doesn’t even touch on the issue of Web 2.0.

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