Folio: The Content Management Dilemna - Good time to revisit the open source CMS

by Scott Paley — last modified December 5, 2008 - 22:28

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Discover Magazine's CEO Henry Donahue writes of his experience with Plone as the foundational element of Discover's fast growing web properties.

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"... many publishers still struggle with the basic issue of getting content online in a way that is timely, efficient and interactive. On top of that, the twin financial and publishing crises make it unlikely that anyone can round up the capital to do a 1999-style $5 million custom CMS development.

Enter the open source content management system.

At Discover, we went with Plone, which was recommended by our outside developers and seemed to combine a simple, intuitive platform with a robust open source development community. You can read a case study about our March 2007 launch here at the Plone site.

Almost three years later, here are my takeaways on our open source experience..."

Provided by: Abstract Edge
Industry: News and Media, Science
Country: United States
Published: Dec 5, 2008

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