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Updated Web CMS product evaluations

10-Jan-2011

Tags: Web Content and Experience Management, Marketplace at Large, Selecting Technology, Drupal, IBM Web Content Manager, Magnolia CMS, Plone CMS, Polopoly, TYPO3

We've just updated our evaluations of five Web CMS offerings, and added a new one (Atex Polopoly) to our report.

They are:

  • Atex Polopoly -- longtime Swedish offering has gotten a bit more wind under UK-based newspaper-automation vendor, Atex
  • Drupal 7 -- a decent upgrade, but not as epic as the Drupal echo chamber would have you believe
  • IBM Lotus WCM -- also a recent upgrade, but still not much to crow about
  • Magnolia -- a rare Java-based open source platform is increasingly targeting media customers
  • Plone -- longtime platform keeps chugging
  • Typo3 -- losing some ground to Drupal and Wordpress, but still suited to certain scenarios

If your organization is a Web Content Management stream subscriber, you can access the updated evaluation chapters and comparison matrices here.

    Excerpt from the TYPO3 Evaluation

    Web Content Management Report looks at... Page Generation in TYPO3

    "Natively, the product does not always output clean, friendly HTML. In particular, you may need to remove table-based markup..."
    (p. 554)

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