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And speaking of Macromedia...

19-Apr-2005

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

One of the comments Macromedia's Senior Product Manager, Craig Barberich, made last week at the Gilbane conference was that he wished the company had started working on its server-based "Web Publishing System" product sooner. Macromedia's desktop-based publishing product, Contribute, has seen some large installations, especially in organizations that know they are going to need 2 or more years to clean up and migrate to a real CMS. We call this the "starter home" approach, but you know what will happen down the road, don't you? Employees are not going to want to leave their familiar Contribute environments. Thus the growing competition among vendors -- including Macromedia, but now also Serena -- to build Contribute front-ends onto their CMS tools...

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