[australia] Why home grown CMS?

[Xavier Brouwer]

Eight years ago I put together a "home-grown" Perl-based global CMS system
for HP from scratch because:

-there was nothing in the open source or commercial space which could do
multibyte Asian languages (in fact the products struggled even with European
languages back then!)
-there was nothing which could process and transform messy unstructured
legacy data into something presentable (Perl regexes came to the rescue!)

However, the industry and open source community have now matured, CMS' have
become commodity products, and there should be few occasions now where a CMS
needs to be built from scratch. In fact, a "home-grown" CMS built today will
probably be heavy with open source components and perhaps even include some
commercial components/tools.

Xavier Brouwer



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[mailto:australia-bounces at lists.cmprofessionals.org] On Behalf Of Marius
Coomans
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 1:45 PM
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Subject: [australia] Why home grown CMS?

Why do Web developers prefer home grown Content Management Systems
over commercial and open source CMS.

"Survey shows 36.75% use a homegrown system, 23.8% use an open source
system, 10% use a commercial CMS" -
http://activeweb.com.au/weblog/archives/2006/10/why_do_they_1.html

Marius Coomans
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