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Where are the high-end .NET CM/DM packages?
22-Jan-2006
At a couple of major clients recently, we puzzled over the lack of higher-end
content and document management tools that would fit well into their .NET-based
architectures. Sure, in the Web
CMS space there are some mid-market products built on .NET, but they all
require the CMS to run in the delivery tier -- something most large enterprises
don't want to do (often for
good reason, I've argued). Even Microsoft tools like SharePoint
Portal and MCMS won't support the latest framework, .NET 2.0, until their
next major release at the end of this year [Correction: MCMS supports .NET 2.0 in latest service pack]. Enterprises with Java-based architectures
simply have many more choices. Or, to put it another way, if you base your technical
architecture on .NET, then you'll have a fine platform for writing your own
tools, but you'll also face a COTS marketplace that simply hasn't gotten on
board yet with Redmond, at least where major enterprise content technologies
are concerned.
- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst
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