Disclosure: I am on Interwoven’s customer advisory board
I’ve known Tom Wentworth at Interwoven since 2005 when I was part of the team bringing Interwoven Teamsite (a very capable enterprise level content management system) into CXO Media at IDG.
I’ve posted in the past on the impact of WordPress — the leading open blogging environment — as a free CMS alternative. I was happy to see Tom tackle this topic in a Dec 30 post:
“As a blogging platform, it’s amazing. Having been in the CMS space at Interwoven for roughly 8 years I really appreciate it any time I see innovation in or around the CMS market. WordPress is one of the most innovative and impressive applications I’ve used in quite some time- WordPress changed the game for blogging. I’ve spent a lot of time with WordPress and although I’m not an expert- I’ve spent enough time with it to get a good feel for what it can (and can’t) do.
So- is WordPress a CMS? Well, no. Although Matt Mullenweg might disagree, WordPress is not a CMS- at least not an enterprise CMS. I won’t get into the limitations in this post but suffice it to say that WordPress isn’t ready to tackle the content challenges faced by Interwoven customers. But as a blogging platform, WordPress does many things well. Here are four things I think CMS vendors can learn from WordPress: …
Hat’s off to Tom for tackling the elephant in the room. I need to post in the future from the point of view of a global enterprise customer concerned with expense challenges and asked, on a regular basis, if there is an open (read “free”) alternative to things like metrics and analytics engines and content management systems. Right now, open isn’t ready for prime time, but for SMB and mid-market, the open allure is undeniable.