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Low End Commercial CMS

Review of Content Management Systems - Section 3, Low End, Commercial

3.0 Low End Commercial CMS

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Introduction
Short List

3.1 Introduction

The following are "proper" content management systems, to varying degrees, but many or most do not have discussion groups. Most are low-end commercial, costing from Ł1,000 up to Ł20,000, but bear in mind that there would be additional consultancy or tailoring costs.

The "Dark Horse" is Membergate, developed by Bill Myers. He describes it as a content publisher and subscription site manager. It is optimised in providing excellent commercial features, such as credit card and email list handling that run on autopilot, reducing setup, administration and maintenance costs. Certainly few of the Open Source systems have really thought through what it takes.

3.2 All worth a further look:

Product	Platform	Pros	Cons
13Amp Sparkplug	Coldfusion MX (but you can publish to HTML for static content, so no extra cost.)	That's better, Very good commercial CMS, Templates Multi-site support Roles, workflow, versioning.	No discussion group Extensible manually only $500 or $1,000 Needs Coldfusion MX
Aegir CMS	php, MySQL	Role based workflow Good content mgmt. Uses the Midgard engine	No discussion groups!
Ariadne	php	Looks good. Basic	Different!, Might be OK No discussion groups?
CompleteContent	Javascript ASP??	Uses SW "patterns" XML based Good on publishing	No discussion groups? Ł20,000 initial
HardCore Web Content Management	asp and php Any DB	Create, publish, manage your website via templates, editor. Micro-site support (pro version).	Commercial: Ł100 to Ł1,000 Community Add-on modules with user admin, discussion groups etc available in May/June 2003 at extra cost.
immediacy	Any server ASP/COM or JSP/EJB SQL2000, Oracle 8i	Clean, easy to use, mature Central XML content repository	Ł12,500 Community support?
Membergate	Any host running Cold Fusion 4.5+ Any ODBC compliant database	Easy to set up and administer. Comprehensive commercial featues. Cheap	There may be concerns about support in depth.
OpenCMS	Java / XML, on Linux, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL	Users and permissions Project based publishing Versioning Templates Module API	No discussion group?
Terminal Four	Java; JDBC database	Good workflow, publishing. Irish	No community support? Commercial, price? Community support?

John Wragg

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