April 16, 2003
CMS - Crap Made Sellable
... And the winner for this and some future years of overhyped, underspecified and hypermarketed technoglut is 'CMS'. You do have a CMS in-place, I hope? And it is industrial-strength and future-proof, I hope? In the wonderful world of CMSes, people seem to have forgotten what really defines a framework and a product.In researching a free or low-cost solution for some website I host but don't want to spend too much time on (by sharing content administration effort with some others), I encountered way too many so-called CMS tools which, while looking nice on first sight, all seem very much targeted towards solving a single goal, i.e. rendering the website they've orginally been designed for. Also, most if not all of them post requirements which make setup in a shared hosting environment insecure at best, and impossible in most cases.
To be continued.
Comments
i hope our claims are not too bold :) thanks for being frank.
Posted by: Gregor J. Rothfuss at April 17, 2003 12:14 AM
It's sad to see my current standard of 'usable CMS' is being defined by simple blogging tools like MT, MozBlog and the like. Anything beyond that is just too hard, too single-purposed or too complex to be called a framework or a product.
Posted by: Steven Noels at April 17, 2003 10:27 PM