Content Management
Open Source Content Management still sucks
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6 Oct 2004
Last July I wrote briefly about some of the problems with open source CMS. Jeff Veen tackles the issue this week and goes a bit more in depth. Like other open source projects the problems seem to all stem from the fact that developers of the products don’t think about the end users enough. They transfer their wants and needs and project them onto the end users. The end result is that the product makes perfect sense to a techie, but is utterly confusing to anyone else. This projection also ensures that the product is inflexible and won’t meet the needs of people who don’t have the same sort of sites as the developers.
Henri Bergius replies to Veen’s article with some specifics about what Midgard is doing.