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content management systems (CMS): are they still so bad?

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urlwolf:
http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2003/nt_2003_03_03_cms.htm

Content management software hasn't worked because it was badly designed and massively over-hyped. Software companies lied about their products, charging criminal prices for crap software. It hasn't worked because organizations didn't understand content. They wanted a quick fix. They issued specifications that bore little relation to what they actually needed.
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THis agrees with the thread at DC, where people who spend many hours evaluating all the fancy OSS for CMS (and some paid ones) ended up sorely dissapointed.

Is this the status quo? Maybe WP is the only think you need to do a decent site nowadays (with so many plugins, you can approximate what other CMS do, and it's dead easy to use)...

mwb1100:
What does WP stand for?

Dormouse:
Is this the status quo? -urlwolf (January 21, 2008, 01:22 PM)
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How can it be the status quo when it is March 03, 2003 - ie nearly 5 years ago?

Dormouse:
What does WP stand for?
-mwb1100 (January 21, 2008, 03:34 PM)
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WordPress, I assume.

urlwolf:
Yes, I want to know IF this 2003 article still makes sense today.
Mouser (and lots of others) have spent quite a lot of time reading about/testing CMSs and most of them are dissapointed.
WP= wordpress

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