Web Content Management System History
Web Content Management Systems began to be formally developed as a commercial software products in the mid nineties. In the mid 2000s, the web content management market became a fragmented market as a plethora of new providers emerged to complement the traditional vendors. These Web Content Management systems are typically broken down into several groups:
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The Cost of Enterprise Content Management
Enterprise level applications are not cheap. In particular, enterprise content management systems can send an organization’s budget plans through the roof. Unless, of course, you are implementing an open source enterprise cms. So the story goes.
According to open source enterprise cms provider Alfresco, they are the alternative with a scalable, easy to use platform at a fraction of the price.
We read their Total Cost of Ownership for Enterprise Content Management whitepaper. The whitepaper walks you through the licensing and hardware costs associated with several propertiery ECMs and shows how clearly open source is the more inexpensive option.
But the story of project costs is not just a tale of license price. There’s a lot more money to spend implementing an Enterprise CMS.
CMIS Update – First Integration Modules Appearing
Alfresco may not have been in the original group of three Enterprise CMS vendors who developed the CMIS Specification, but they certainly are the most active when it comes to putting it to use. Today they announce a partnership with Joomlatools that demonstrates the first official integration module based on CMIS: Alfresco:Joomla!™ Integration Module.