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Will open source rule CMS?
By Shelly Doll
Builder.com
October 9, 2002
As the demand for easily maintainable content increases, the Content Management System (CMS) industry continues to grow.
Expensive proprietary or custom-built systems continue to rule this domain, but open-source initiatives such as Open-Source Content Management (OSCOM) are targeting goals, such as interoperability and low implementation cost, that proprietary systems won't touch.
Wyona, a Swiss producer of open-source content management software, launched a new initiative for open-source community participation in CMS when it held the first OSCOM conference in March 2002. Based on that event's successful turnout, collaborators from six different CMS projects joined to host a second conference in Berkeley, CA, on Sept. 25 through 27. Developers and project leads met face-to-face to learn more about other CMS projects and contribute to discussions on interoperability between solutions. The OSCOM group believes that promoting standardized methods of content delivery will benefit developers, users, and customers, all of whom will have access to the best solutions, regardless of their particular framework.
We asked two experts, EuroZope Foundation founder Paul Everitt and CMS guru Gregor Rothfuss, to explain this open source CMS movement's goals and motivations. The open source advocates compare the status of current CMS options--which run the gamut from simple flat-file data storage to robust database solutions--to that of Linux as it flirted with corporate acceptance a few years ago. Everitt and Rothfuss speculate that cost and flexibility integration of custom, in-house applications will once again drive adoption of open-source technologies in many corporate shops.
Q: In a few words, how would you characterize the open source CMS community?
Rothfuss: The open source CMS community enjoys widespread recognition because it offers products that are useful to a very wide range of people, both fellow techies and end users. This influx of consumers is something most open-source projects are unprepared for, and it will be interesting to watch how consumers and producers interact and get used to each other in the future.
Q: What is driving the open source CMS community? Is it a reaction to fill a need or a reclaiming of the proprietary market?
Rothfuss: The open source CMS community is a very diverse bunch. There is no single focus that drives the whole community, with the possible exception of creating solutions that work for the individuals involved in specific projects.
Everitt: Individual projects are driven simply by the joy of creating something people find interesting. Many of the projects find a way to transition into a business story, usually around consulting. This means the people in the project can align their passion and profession, which is a wildly powerful balance. The community of open-source content management is driven by a desire to communicate, first, with each other; there are some common issues like interoperability and ease-of-use that we can help each other work on. Second, we want to communicate with the larger industry.
I've been on the analyst conference calls, and open source just isn't on the radar at all. Why? Instead of complaining about a Roswell-like conspiracy, we need to change the equation ourselves. The benefits we bring to content management customers are important, and we need to deliver the message.
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