CPS – Claim Your Mountain
Thursday, 8 December 2005
Eric, in response to your post, may I say that Marc Fleury, of JBoss is known for his ability to hype and market. He may well tout Alfresco as the first open source ECM, and that meme will stick he he shouts often enough.
My questions for you:
- Have you done a press release to refute Marc’s claims? You need to initiate the equivalent of a PR-bunfight to get publicity. Free press releases over at PRWeb.
- Your article is well written but it emphasises features over benefits. If I were you, I would bold the benefits, and not highlight the feature names (e.g. CPSSkins).
Architecturally, how is CPS differentiated from Plone? At the moment, Plone is enjoying good mindshare.
Like it or not, Marc is already halfway through claiming the Opensource ECM mountain. Plone has already claimed the accessibility mountain, with lots of demos repeated focussing on how the blind can edit content with Plone. CPS has a mountain too. But first it has to create a new category for itself, and push it to analysts.
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No. 1 — December 8th, 2005 at 10:03 am
Hi Chui (I assume it’s your name, please forgive me if I’m wrong),
First, I would like to thank you to have read this post and being enough interested in it to take the time to answer.
But, I don’t understand why you are saying that I do not agree with Marc Fleury or that Marc is saying that Alfresco is the first ECM project as open source software (maybe he said it but I’m not aware of it :-).
I wrote : “If you still have doubt about this model’s [ie: open source] viability, please read the following article from Marc Fleury : Is Open Source capitalism, socialism or communism?).”
So, I just link one of Marc’s posts because it show very well that the open source model *is* viable and that there is no more proof needed. It’s the only reason why I linked to this post (and maybe because I’m a big fan of his posts :-).
I just said that I think some analysts are unfair or maybe mis-informed. That’s all. I really like Marc’s post ! :-)
And yes, we do press releases and we claim our montain, that’s why I posted this entry on my blog.
To answer to your second question, I list features to show that CPS *is* an ECM platform. I don’t try to convice about ECM’s benetits.
Last, CPS architecture is really different from Plone’s one, but it’s not the topic of my post. I you would like to know more on this, please look at the features of the platform or send an email to me or the cps-users@lists.nuxeo.com mailing lists.
No. 2 — December 8th, 2005 at 10:23 am
Thanks for taking time to reply. The I.T. presses don’t always check whether their sources have self interest in mind. <wink> Someone have to feed them these claims.
I believe even open source projects have to engage in healthy competition among one another in order to maintain mindshare, and sustain development.
CPS occupies a niche that analysts don’t understand well, and that is a real pity. The number of organizations requiring these functionality simply boggles the mind.
No. 3 — December 8th, 2005 at 10:19 pm
Plone and CPSS- more successful in Europe, by far, so far. Alfresco has notable buzz in the US. that accounts for some of the difference methinks. its like americans thinking RedHat is the only Linux distro worth mentioning – oh nobody uses SuSE or Debian – ever been to France or Germany?
No. 4 — January 11th, 2006 at 9:48 pm
Outstanding Questions regarding Enterprise Content
Over the last couple of months, I have had the opportunity to get involved with our ECM efforts at work. Spent a lot of time searching google, reading whitepapers of vendors and even the research of industry analysts yet I still have many outstanding…
No. 5 — January 16th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
James (McGovern),
Your thinking at architectural level is years ahead of what I have been doing, and I’m not quite sure how I can contribute to the discussion here.
Not sure if this is what you are asking… As far as ECM goes, the questions I’d ask a vendor are:
a) How do I measure the openness of the ECM architecture? For instance, for RDBMS level integration, does it expose basic document concepts as Views? How important are hooks and scriptability of the ECM application?
b) Document and collaboration are interlinked concepts. What kind of architecture is required to satisfy partial trust? For instance, if our company outsource some work to external contractors, what kind of enterprise architecture do we need?
c) What kind of standard interfaces are exposed so that existing enterprise apps can take advantage of the workflow facilities in an ECM?