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The Web CMS Report 2008 looks at... Mediasurface Morello

"Mediasurface also now offers a small hosted solution, mostly for creative agencies, called Pepperio (acquired a little over a year ago), and more recently, in June 2007, Mediasurface acquired mid-tier player Immediacy, which it plans to maintain as a separate product. The company claims it is now well-positioned to compete across a large portion of the CMS landscape. Our take is that managing three different CMS products can be very distracting, and we don't see many "synergies" among the tools or partner bases. On the other hand, most of the risks going forward would seem to reside more with Immediacy customers rather than the company's flagship Morello base. "

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Reef, R.I.P.

16-Jul-2002

Well, just when you thought consolidation was on hold, here is a CMS vendor out cold. Belgium-based Reef declared bankruptcy today. Evidently 30 staff managed to burn through 85 million Euros. Here's a quickie post-mortem. Reef had three problems: lightweight technical execution (though elegant architecture, conceptually); funky business model that relied overly on channel commitments; lack of a particular niche (real killer for a company its size)...
Read the Official Death Notice

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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