February 16th, 2010 by Janus Boye
5 Comments| .net, sitecore, umbraco
After a recent briefing with a Danish system integrator, I started speculating on whether Umbraco CMS might be on track to steal market share from Sitecore in the marketplace for .NET-based content management systems. Others have mentioned the possible trend to me in the past, but is it really happening? Comparing open source Umbraco and …
January 4th, 2010 by Janus Boye
14 Comments| bcsositpf, microsoft, open source, plone, umbraco
Despite much hype we did not see a breakthrough for open source CMS last year. When I launched the discussion last year, we received some great comments, e.g. on intellectual property and warranty, suggesting that in some cases open source is not the right decision. In the past decade, several governments have issued statements with …
August 27th, 2009 by Janus Boye
6 Comments| cms, lbi, open source, sapient, umbraco
Open source content management systems have made major progress in recent years. The systems have matured usual weaknesses such as usability, integration, lacking features and weak documentation has been addressed. In addition many large and complex organisations have adopted open source CMS and are now running busy sites on the platforms. Illustration credit: Siteworx For …
August 12th, 2009 by Janus Boye
45 Comments| alfresco, cms, cms selection, cms watch, day, drupal, ektron, episerver, fatwire, forrester, gartner, joomla, microsoft, plone, sitecore, tridion, typo3, umbraco, wordpress
Selecting the right CMS is not an easy task with; there is in excess of 1,000 vendors in the very dynamic CMS marketplace. Unfortunately industry analysts tend to evaluate too many vendors for the needs of most buyers. Consider CMS Watch which has 42 systems in their Web CMS Report and Gartner with 18 vendors …
March 3rd, 2009 by Peter Sejersen
9 Comments| .net, cms, dynamicweb, microsoft, open source, umbraco
Over the last couple of years the .NET-based open source CMS, Umbraco, has grown significantly. I recently attended a seminar, where founder Niels Hartvig announced that the system has been used in more than 61,000 active installations. In comparison, the Danish CMS-vendor Dynamicweb has around 4,500 installations (according to co-founder Nicolai Pedersen). Since we first …