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RedDot Does Delivery, Too

19-Jan-2005

Tags: Portals and Content Integration, Web Content and Experience Management, Selecting Technology, Web Site Management

Like Interwoven, RedDot is a CMS vendor with a decoupled management/delivery environment. And like Interwoven's LiveSite, RedDot offers an optional dynamic publishing server, called "LiveServer." Just upgraded to version 2.2, LiveServer handles many of the features you would look for in an application server and/or portal, such as caching, personalization, and visitor privileges management. RedDot says its offering constitutes a lighterweight alternative for those who want dynamic delivery -- tightly coupled with the CMS -- without the complexity of a formal application server. That's true. But with each new feature enhancement, the product inevitably becomes more and more appserver-like, and so buyers have to ask themselves whether they aren't better off going with the real thing instead. As always, it depends on use cases. If all you are serving is content from your RedDot CMS, LiveServer might suffice; if you are doing more complex e-business, you'll probably want to go best-of-breed...
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