The product has been fading since the vendor released a lower-end tool called CM1 in 2010, but Rhythmyx retained a meaningful, if declining, customer base.
As the Web CMS marketplace pendulum has swung from content management to experience management over the past few years, we've seen a greater emphasis on "coupled" architectures. That's not always a good thing
Over lunch with an industry colleague the other day, I asked: "Have you heard anything of Percussion lately?" The answer was negative, which didn’t surprise me and only confirmed my assessment of the WCXM vendor stalling in mid-air, while the majority of its competition (such as Adobe, CoreMedia, Oracle/FatWire, and SDL Tridion) continues to soar ahead
What should you make of a new product "distribution" that a CMS vendor develops in an effort to supplement its very platform-like offering with a more out-of-the-box product?
A former colleague of mine, one of the smartest engineers I have ever had the
pleasure of working with, recently attended "developer training" for
WCM vendor
Percussion Software originally started out as a purveyor of Lotus tools. As
its subsequent Web CMS business grew to substantially outstrip the Lotus side,
those tools became a sometimes confusing appendage for prospective customers.
Earlier this week, Percussion
announced that it was splitting off its Lotus products into an entirely separate
company called "Axceler." Of course,