Montag, 7. Oktober 2002

Paul Everitt: Europe is slated to be a third of the content management market in the next three years, and there is a backlash here against propping up the stock price for American shareholders. ... Business school teaches software executives that the road to billions is paved by locking in your customers and creating a proprietary advantage in the market. The fundamental role for customers in this view is to prop up the vendor's stock price. I view open source as a new business relationship between the server and the served. 10:07:57 AM

Rickard Öberg: The main problem is that nowadays "just" having a portal isn't good enough. It needs to be a content management system (CMS) as well, which means that (at least) it needs to support templating, ability to control the graphical presenatation (i.e. pre-defined fonts and such), ability to publish pages at a given time, and so on. If it can't do that, and from what I can see Liferay can't, it's not going to fly. I can't think of any of our customers, big or small, who would use anything like that. 9:37:53 AM

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