Open source software is gaining attention within the content management industry. According to Seth Gottlieb of Optaros, many open source Web CMS solutions are feature-rich, fully baked applications that compete favorably in the market space and suffer only because they lack the sales and marketing that drive the success of most commercial offerings - for now. While commercial Web CMS providers staff only a relative few who actually develop and test their products, open source projects are driven almost entirely by programmers who can build and release new features, enhancements, and bug-fixes to the public much more quickly than any commercial (resource limited and bottom-line driven) enterprise.

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Presented by Tony Byrne, Founder, CMS Watch
3rd Annual Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies
Tuesday, November 28 2006 - 9:00am

In the global landscape, there are over 2,000 commercial and open source products that call themselves Web content management systems. While it has been fashionable in the industry to claim that consolidation is occurring, it is unlikely that any such change will take place quickly or soon. Any review of CMS requires that certain key and universal functional capabilities be considered and compared across a range of products that vary in size, cost and complexity, including:

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The UC Davis Web Development Forum was officially launched today as the group’s new Web site was unveiled and invitations to sign up were distributed to a broad audience of campus communicators, Web specialists, and technical staff.

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