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FatWire Still Likes Its Original Product

30-Jan-2006

Tags: Web Content Management, Marketplace at Large, Selecting Technology, FatWire Content Server, Interwoven TeamSite

A little more than 2 years ago we reported on Vignette "liking its old dog food," running its public site on its old, V6 platform (still does: tell-tale URL). With FatWire the situation is just as bad. Parts of fatwire.com are still running on Update Engine (e.g. this page), the original FatWire product from before the acquisition of Content Server from divine. FatWire still supports Update Engine, but the product has not been actively sold for some time. Content Server was acquired in 2003, but most of the Content Server specialists in the U.S. were let go. To be fair, parts of the FatWire website -- such as the developer extranet -- run on Content Server, but forms and other content are still generated from Update Engine. FatWire could also decide to migrate its site to Spark, a lighter version of Content Server that comes freely with Sun Portal Server. FatWire was hoping to get leads from the Sun partnership and portal bundle, but unfortunately Sun presently only resells TeamSite, which means the prospective customers are passed onto Interwoven. With competitor Day on the doorstep of new opportunities, whither FatWire?

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