Should major CMS software vendors also provide their solution as a hosted service? None of them do right now (though some of their partners have set up ASPs). Stellent is working towards the hosted model, though. The company recently acquired a very small firm that used Stellent to provide Document Management services to the real estate industry. Stellent is going to expand this into other verticals, maintaining a focus -- initially -- on DM and forms management. However, they also plan to stray into hosted web content management as well. We really like the idea of hosted CMS solutions, but wonder a little whether the same company can remain successful as both a purveyor of packaged software and provider of managed services...
Read Stellent's release about its acquisition