AW: [opencms-dev] convert Vignette sites to OpenCMS

[Matthias Nott]

Shawn,
 
The basic question will be whether or not they are actually using the
Vignette functionality. I know Vignette
up to V/6 pretty well and see the following bits that may be of
interest:
 
a) caching (could be replaced e.g. by opensymphony.org/oscache)
b) url rewrite (can be replaced by e.g. mod_rewrite)
c) "records" (you perhaps don't want to use them in the first place)
d) which language do they use - vign supports JSP (ok, say, they have a
Java API), but many sites are still Tcl
 
So basically there is no general answer to your question, except that
_yes_, there are many open source cms'es
around that can deliver many things very similar, or even superior to at
least what I know (pre-V/7). Some
of the hottest candidates are opencms (Java), and, in terms of
functionality probably even more advanced, Typo3
(PHP).
 
A very simple question you can seriously ask your customers is this:
What are you actually using from
your CMS functionality?
 
Cheers,
 
M
 

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[mailto:owner-opencms-dev at www.opencms.org] Im Auftrag von Bernard, Shawn
Gesendet: Thursday, January 09, 2003 8:12 PM
An: 'opencms-dev at opencms.com'
Betreff: [opencms-dev] convert Vignette sites to OpenCMS



We have a bunch of sites running on Vignette, and all of them have a
very complex, unique content management system.  Each has its own unique
datamodel and content management application, as well as content display
application.

We are considering moving away from Vignette and to an open source CMS
that supports JSP/Java. 

Does anyone have any experience porting over complex sites to OpenCMS?
It is absolutely necessary that we keep the current datamodels of the
sites, as well as all the functionality of the sites' content management
applications.

Does anyone out there have experience with this?  Is this even possible?
Or will I have to adopt the OpenCMS methodology/model of doing content
management?

Thanks, 

Shawn 

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