Open source CMS is growing of: TechUpdate.comTuesday, July 1 2003 12:31 PM
IT managers in funds are looking for new options, and the content management system (CMS) of open source code is gradually warming. Personalized customized and free open source forms an important competitive threat to heavyweight CMS vendors such as Interwoven and Vignette.
In September, Berkeley's OSCOM (open source content management, Open-Source Content Management) conference, the new interests of the open source CMS showed that open source CMS is gradually winning a wide range of acceptance . The difficult economic situation makes the open source are more attractive, but the ability to customize is also a driving force. "Now, people are only not so interested in spending a big price to buy expensive products. They want to find a more cheap alternative" Gartner's analyst Lou Latham. " But the advantage of open source code is not only for cost savings. Content management, which requires a certain degree of customization, by obtaining source code, developers can accomplish support for some unique content - this is impossible for dedicated tools. Here are some companies that need to consider when considering open source CMS products, as well as the four major open source competitors - Zope, Midgard, OpenCMS, and Red Hat CCM -. Standard now has a lot of open source content management tools, many of whom are originally for a specific, usually small-scale project production. For this reason, many of these tools can not meet the needs of the company, you need to consider which type of content you want your content management system to handle, and make sure your software choices can complete the tasks you give. Measurable for any major software procurement is a problem, but some other problems need to be considered for the software of open source code. First of all, select those products that are attractive to developers - the reason is obvious. For an open source code project, its development and innovation depends entirely on its development. Quantity and quality of people. Second, because not all open source products have commercial organization support, it is very important to decide whether there is external support. If not, or only limited support, you can only send your internal employees to have enough skills to maintain your system. All four companies in competitors provide this product, as in Latham, "Basic Content Management Toolkit". It includes a content library, dynamic page generation, and workflow. Each company also provides some other features, including corporate joint organization, humanity, cache, and editing tools. "Content Management" is a general statement that there are many other features in addition to the core functions mentioned above. I don't intend to introduce all the functions of each product, but I should try to understand the situation to determine a solution to meet your current and planned needs. Zope: Zope issued an open source version of the open source in 1998. Because of the start of the start, "Zope may lead to other competitors." Latham said. Zope is based on an open source language Python, some of which are written in C language because of the speed of the speed. It has a large number of modules and extensions, which are developed by third-party developers, and others are developed by Zope. Zope's CEO Robert Page said that Zope's goal is the corporate market. It was developed six years ago, and now is the leader in the open source software. "The main competitor of Zope is Vignette and Interwoven" Page. "There is no other enterprise open source system to compete with us." Zope can store content using ordinary RDBMS, LDAP, and file systems, and allow load balancing between multiple machines. Page means a single Zope product now handles up to 1,500 clicks per second, Viacom, Aarp, US Navy, and Northern Atlantic Convention Organizations are their users. This product has many support options. Zope Corporation provides consulting and support services.
Unlike other products here, Zope includes our application servers, which have been investing in J2EE or .NET application servers, and companies that do not want to hurt their brains to support two products. Moreover, Python is a mature language, but it is not widely recognized as Java, VB or C #, and those organizations that have been investing in J2EE or .NET do not want to have another language. Zope supports all major platforms, including Linux, Solaris, Windows, and Mac OS. Red Hat Content and Collaborative Management: Red Hat Content and Collaboration Management (CCM), is the previous ARS Digita Community System, is a J2EE solution that requires a separate application server (Tomcat, Resin, Oracle, WebLogic, or WebSphere, as well as the postgres database of Oracle or red hats. It runs in a UNIX environment (Solaris or Linux). The general manager of the vice president of red hat and the general manager of content collaboration management will list Vignette, Interwoven, and Documentum as the competitor of CMM. The first advantage of CMM is that it is a red hat product. It has the same support and training options with other red hats, and the red hat can put their own considerable development resources to the CMM, while also attracting a large number of externally developers. When used with Red Hat Linux Advanced Server, Jacobson said that CMM connects more CMM servers to the network by pressing on-demand to provide "almost continuous measurement". For the same reason, it applies to ordinary enterprise software environments. Because it is only for Solaris or Linux, CMM does not apply to users who are looking for Windows solutions. But the application server is supported, Oracle is a common component in the enterprise software environment; the red hat is clearly created for CMM. Jacobson said CMM "is suitable for companies with 300,000 employees", and it has been used by Siemens, World Bank, WGBH Boston, and many other users. OpenCMS: OpenCMS is released in 1999, Sweden Internet Adviser Framfab supports it. Framfab has branches in six countries in Europe. Germany FRAMFAB is the main initiator of the OpenCMS project. Like CMM, OpenCMS is a J2EE product, which is written in Java. It is bundled with Tomcat, but according to the Framfab's OpenCMS Professional Services (OpenCMS Expert Service) leader Michael Emmerich, OpenCMS has passed the test, which can be used on ATG Dynamo, WebLogic and WebSphere. Unlike CMM, OpenCMS can save content using many RDBMs, including Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, and MySQL. On November 11, OpenCMS released a second beta version, version number is 5.0, and it is expected to be able to release a final formal version at the end of 2002. The new version provides a new template engine, JSP support, a new connection management system, improves stability.
