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Sceptical About Stellent's Salad Dressing...

11-Mar-2003

Tags: Web Content and Experience Management, Marketplace at Large, Selecting Technology, FatWire Content Server, Universal Content Management

When CMS vendors detect weakness in a competitor, they often propose discounted migrations. But there's a problem: significant architectural differences are likely to convert a "migration" exercise into a highly complex and expensive makeover. We think this is the case with Stellent's oil and divine's vinegar. Stellent is reportedly offering discounts to divine customers to switch in the face of the latter's bankruptcy announcement. For most divine customers it won't be an easy migration. Content Server runs in an appserver with a relational database. Stellent offers a free-standing server that uses a Verity repository. Content Server is optimized for public-facing, news-oriented sites. Stellent focusses on document-heavy Intranets. We don't think this oil and vinegar will mix very well. And note, btw, that whatever divine's problems (they are legion), the company is not liquidating (yet, anyway), and Content Server is likely to find an owner in any case...
Read about Stellent's offer in eContent      Peruse divine's bankruptcy notice

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