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What Interwoven's LiveSite Says about the CMS Marketplace

18-Jan-2005

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

Interwoven's just-released "LiveSite" plug-in to TeamSite represents a limited return to coupled content management and delivery for particular scenarios -- especially those where content is not heavily repurposed. Priced at $15k/CPU, the new product enables business users to control the appearance and behavior -- within proscribed limits -- of dynamic pages. Contributors can move content elements around, resize, add, remove them, and so on. The corollary is that LiveSite also acts as a kind of appserver-lite and delivers those pages (note the licensing implications). To perform its WYSIWYG component-management magic, LiveSite relies heavily on HTML tables for output, and could conceivably put a crimp into some design goals. More importantly, licensees will need to carefully evaluate what configurations are maintained centrally by developers and designers versus giving businesspeople decisive layout control. Still, this is always a good conversation to have...
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