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<DIV><SPAN class=106224120-09012003><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000 size=2>What
do you mean "it will require customization/modification of current Vigentte
Project to conform to the openCMS"? What kind of modifications are you
talking about? To our data model? To the way we categorize
content?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=106224120-09012003><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000
size=2><BR>Thanks,<BR><BR>Shawn</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Koroup Ear
[mailto:Kear@iPathSolutions.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 09, 2003
3:33 PM<BR><B>To:</B> opencms-dev@www.opencms.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE:
[opencms-dev] convert Vignette sites to OpenCMS<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi
Shawn,</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As a Vignette Ex-VPS
and having been working with openCMS for about a month or so, I believe it is
possible to migrate a project from Vignette into openCMS. However, it
will require customization/modification of current Vignettte Project to
conform to the openCMS.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Just to keep in mind,
openCMS only have basic java classes with a specific number of method calls
that you can make. On the good side of it, you can enhance those to meet
your needs and openCMS caching mechanism is much much better that
Vignette.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Koroup</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">-----Original
Message-----<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Bernard,
Shawn [mailto:Shawn.Bernard@turner.com] <BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, January 09, 2003 1:12
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B>
'opencms-dev@opencms.com'<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [opencms-dev] convert Vignette
sites to OpenCMS</SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We are considering moving away from Vignette and to an
open source CMS that supports JSP/Java.</SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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?</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Thanks,</SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Shawn</SPAN></FONT>
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