Is Content Management a solved problem?
fergie: Content management is definately the way forward for any website that contains a significant mass of editorial content.The challenge in choosing a content managment system (CMS) is that it is typical example of 'enterprise software' (in my head I am saying 'enterprise' in a silly voice and rolling my eyes), and therefore attracts a high proportion of expensive, yet functionally unimpressive offerings.As somebody who has been around the block a bit with several CMSs, from high priced bespoke packages, to completely homegrown, to big name MeToo clones, I can tell you that in terms of functionalty there are 4 systems which lead the pack, and these are all open source. They are: Drupal, Joomla, Plone and Mediawiki.However, (and this is where it gets interesting) the solutions named above are often ruled out in the early stages of procurement precisely because they are open source. Want to actually pay for a CMS system? The field for proprietary CMSs is wide open, and there is no reason why another competitor cannot break through.