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competing with sharepoint? that's brave

feelite wrote:

competing with sharepoint? that's brave

I dont think so. It is the 80/20 rule. There is no point in getting all of SPS functionalities if you are not going to use it. Now, there is still a choice. The market is big enough for competition

even microsoft germany is using them...... lol

http://www.axcms.net/en_axcms_referenz_kunde.AxCMS

one thing i notice is that there are that many windows-only CMS products out there in the market and for the organizations that do use these things, most of them have a SPS team site as a version of it is free and no development effort is required for 80% of the time. seriously, i wonder when is there a compelling reason to use a CMS instead of old style email attachments?

feelite wrote:

...seriously, i wonder when is there a compelling reason to use a CMS instead of old style email attachments?

I agree. Public Folders of Microsoft Exchange is fantastic for that purpose.

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anyone manage to download it? I register in the morning but so far have not got any email from them

It took them about 3/4 of a day to mail it to me.

Softwaremaker wrote:

It took them about 3/4 of a day to mail it to me.

Guess I have to wait then..haha..thnks =)

Phew, I finally got their email, after 2 days..haha

Will be trying it

feelite wrote:

one thing i notice is that there are that many windows-only CMS products out there in the market and for the organizations that do use these things, most of them have a SPS team site as a version of it is free and no development effort is required for 80% of the time. seriously, i wonder when is there a compelling reason to use a CMS instead of old style email attachments?

Feelite, you have to be clear why you are using CMS in the first place, cos you are comparing an apple with an orange...

First of all, when you are sending out old style email attachment, most of the time you are doing collaboration. This is where SharePoint and / or groove fits in properly. But when you come to CMS, most of the time you are publishing confirmed information to the public, or to other members of your team. Hence email or exchange folders is not exactly the best place to publish information...

In fact, there are plans for SgDotNet to use a CMS system... hopefully members will be able to use the new system sometime end of this year...

Hi Kit kai

I admit that I'm rather confused by this as I never have had  a chance to play with the Microsoft CMS. From what I did play with, postnuke, phpnuke, xoop and mambo, I feel they seldom stand alone from being integrated into a portal solution.

Now, what's the difference between say Microsoft CMS and SPS? Can I think of CMS are a kind of document management system that may have workflow function built in if the flow and evolution of documents is important. Or are CMS rather a kind of web content publishing tool?

SharePoint can also do document management, hence I don't believe CMS is document management.

Windows SharePoint Services is targeted to provide collaboration. For teams to work on something together, be it short term project or long term project, doesn't matter. SharePoint Portal is for users to find finalised content. CMS comes in when the content is kind of work in progress, but doesn't have anyone collaborating... Just have approval workflow, which when the content is approved, the content is published for internal use, or general public... Not so much as document management... Think of it as a website that allows you to change the pages online, but everytime it saves, it goes through an approval workflow...

Shunjie wrote:

Phew, I finally got their email, after 2 days..haha Will be trying it

Installing it on a local machine should be easy.

However, it does not come with a web-installer. If you try to install it to a hosted environment, might have some problems. I am still trying to resolve it.

 

there are some other more web focussed ASP.NET CMS in Europe like contentXXL Business Content Management System:

http://www.contentXXL.com

It has advanced multilanguage features (a must-be in europe) and manages not text fragments but real business objects like news, contacts, products, events, documents etc. with out-of-the-box functionallity like shopping basket or send to friend. These objects are related by topic maps (Content Relationship Management System), e.g. for related links or contacts.

Serveral well known global acting companies uses contentXXL, e.g. http://press.adidas.com , http://www.schleuniger.ch , http://eu.shuttle.com ...

So there is no need to wait for ASP.NET CMS :-)

Frank