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The Web CMS Report 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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Vignette.com: Still V6 after all these years

28-Jul-2006   --  

Thirty months ago today I criticized Vignette for still running its older V6 CMS on its own website, a year after the company launched its V7 product and two years after acquiring a (rather nice) portal package. Well, Vignette still likes its old dog food; check out this telltale V6 URL. I guess that's good news for the scads of customers still running V6 -- the company needs to continue supporting it, if only for its own site. Vignette has claimed that it runs V7 behind the scenes, but if it's so hard for them to upgrade their public site, perhaps you can understand why so many customers also remain wary of switching. To be fair, I suspect other vendors also lag in their use of their own products, especially those with "decoupled" architectures where the CMS remains hidden behind a webserver tier. There are no simple CMS projects. How well will your vendor truly understand your implementation pains?

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst - Twitter: TonyByrne

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