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Speaking of hosted solutions...

10-Dec-2004

Tags: Web Content Management, Marketplace at Large, Selecting Technology, CommonSpot Content Server, Content Manager Enterprise Edition

Content management as a service continues to gain traction. One measure of its growing popularity is the high percentage of start-up CMS vendors electing to go the hosted route. Established players also continue to experiment with hosted offerings. In some cases market reaction has been underwhelming -- Stellent and RedDot's hosted content management services have not taken off. Recently PaperThin and MediaSurface have announced hosted Web CMS offerings. They too will face challenges: it can be hard to run software as a service that wasn't built that way from the ground up, and both companies risk alienating integration partners. Nevertheless, for buyers this experimentation means more choices, and choice is good...
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