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Still waiting for Vista-IE7 support

info@jboye.dk(Janus Boye) — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:20:00 -0400

Back in April I commented on incompatibilities with various Web CMS tool interfaces and IE7 in Microsoft Vista. Now, 4 months later I am busy researching the upcoming 12th edition of the Web CMS Report, and still many vendors (e.g., CoreMedia, e-Spirit, eZ Systems, Vignette) do not yet fully support IE7-on-Vista, and in some cases (e.g., Synkron) seem to have no near-term plans to do so.

Interestingly when I interview end-users or consultancies they frequently bring up lack of Vista support as an increasing annoyance, in particular for editors (who frequently must work from home), but when I speak to vendors they never mention Vista support, unless specifically asked. Instead the vendors I've interviewed are much more keen to talk about "social software," blogging, and tagclouds. Supporting Vista may not be "hot stuff," but it is surely important as home users upgrade their PCs. [Update, September 4: CoreMedia points out that they already partially support IE7/Vista. Added Synkron as their plans for support are still in the dark]

Is German CoreMedia still a CMS company?

info@jboye.dk(Janus Boye) — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:46:00 -0400

While the CoreMedia corporate website still mentions CMS, it seems like the longtime German content management vendor is more focused on digital rights management (DRM) these days. To be sure, their DRM capabilities are quite unique, but prospective buyers of CoreMedia's CMS should note that "Mobile TV" and "Music Anywhere" are on the top of the company's solutions and dominate their press releases. As buyers of the recently released CMS Report, European Edition know, DRM brings in roughly 50 percent of the revenue for CoreMedia and occupies half of their 50 or so engineers. With this in mind CoreMedia is not as big a CMS vendor as they may appear to be. Sören Stamer, CoreMedia's CEO offers his take on superdistribution.net, a CoreMedia staff weblog about mobile content business [Updated: September 23]

A Standard Web CMS for German Government

tbyrne@cmswatch.com(Tony Byrne) — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 00:00:00 -0500

The German government has launched the first site managed by a new Web content management system, "Government Site Builder," which was built by a local integrator, "Materna," on top of a product from German CMS vendor CoreMedia. As part of "BundOnline 2005" the package will become a government standard. We think Web content management standards for eGovernment are a good thing. This particular approach has some rather...well...German touches: every German federal agency ultimately must use the product, and employ the same web design to boot. Other ideas seem quite practical, including a national competence center and knowledge-sharing about CMS. At the end of the day, good CMS practice is more important to eGovernment than a standard CMS product...
See a crudely translated description of Government Site Builder