Forum OpenACS CMS: Re: Needed: a detailed investigation into the status of the existing old CMS

Hi Danielle,

This sounds really great that there are so many new and essential releases coming.

Concerning CMS; we tried to get a customer to pay for fixing the old CMS, but it was not possible as soon as we compared it to open source CMSs like Plone (Zope) or Midgard. The problem I think is, that there are already so many mature open source CMS out there that it will be quite difficult to get a sponsor as the market for CMS is quite saturated. And there are commercial products such as Hyperwave or Stellent that are also targeting now for medium-sized companies and not only big organisations that happened to pay EUR 200000+ for a CMS.

We built our own CMS for the United Nations, and we are tuning the application at the moment. The IT Head promised to release it as soon as we finished polishing it. I hope that can help you. The downisde of that module is that it does not fully rely on the cr data model.

/Gregor