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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Shawn,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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 size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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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style='font-size:10.0pt;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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<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>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:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>We are considering moving away from Vignette and to an
open source CMS that supports JSP/Java.</span></font> </p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>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:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>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:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thanks,</span></font> </p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Shawn</span></font> </p>
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