For a couple of years now, many smallish CMS vendors have boasted of new products "built from the ground up" on .NET. And for the most part, the marketplace has yawned. What did .NET really offer the everyday content manager? Nothing special. But now that more developers are mastering the latest Microsoft platform, some interesting opportunities have emerged, including the capacity to take advantage of faster processors and better security controls. Via Mono, .NET-based products might run on Linux, too. More generally, it means that programmers can take relatively inexpensive content management products like Ektron's "CMS400.NET" and begin to develop complex applications, just like they would with an "enterprise" plaform. Ultimately, what's good for developers becomes good for authors, too -- it just takes a couple of years...
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