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The Web CMS Report 2008 looks at... Vignette Content Management

"One area where experienced content engineers will find Vignette lacking is in XML support. With its optional integration tool called "VBIS," you can import and output XML content, but while managing content, Vignette sticks to a straight relational model. Like most other CMS tools, Vignette can represent content as XML, albeit using its own schema (you cannot use arbitrary or industry-standard schemas in the management environment). The problem is not that the product uses a database for storage (most packages do that). Rather, by natively lacking strong notions of hierarchy, the product can work in unexpected ways, such as..."

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Rich text editor alternatives to Ektron

12-Nov-2005

CMS vendor Ektron started out as a WYSIWYG widget maker and pretty much made that market through OEM deals with several major CMS vendors. But some customers don't want an ActiveX-based solution, and rich text editors are notoriously finicky, so not every solution works well within any given environment. There are many applet-based alternatives, although they have had a reputation for bugginess. Now it looks like Ephox is coming to lead that lot, announcing recent OEM deals with Vignette and Percussion, enabling those vendors to compete better in some markets (e.g. academia) where Windows does not dominate the desktop. With the rise of AJAX, though, I'm seeing more CMS vendors gaining confidence with DHTML+Javascript rich interfaces. So the days of the thick plug-in may be numbered...

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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