[australia] Why home grown CMS?

[Frank Warwick]

All I am hearing here is negative corporate blandness.

Tirade after tirade of 'it cant be done' and 'don't go there' and
'programmers are unreliable' is so depressing to hear (read). All this comes
down to bad planing and miss management of staff and not getting involved
because 'thats not what I do' attatude

Yes there are great open source applications out there, and yes you are hard
beat to do better, but folks, lets get back to what its all about, its all
about horses for courses.

Some applications are such an over kill for a given solution, who needs a
'Squiz' or 'Mambo' when they are a small business that is working to make
money, not run an IT department. Most people don't have a clue about the web
and an attachment in an email is a challenge and definitely cant afford a
full time money loss by employing a 'web master'

There will always be a place for the passionate who produce for a given
market and the reality is that there are a lot of small fish and not many
whales.

Rant and rave in your comfortable office and ignore the floor where the
effort is produced and your attatude will never change. Get off you ass and
be part of the solution and life will never look better.

My writing is not ment to abuse but to inspire so get out there and be
positive.

Regards
Frank Warwick
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On 10/10/06, Martin Bauer <martin at designit.com.au> wrote:
>
>  The one word answer is ignorance.
>
> A longer explanation would have go into detail into the "not invented
> here" syndrome along with the insidious combination of developer ego and
> laziness, ie. I can do better and I can't be bothered documenting it.
>
> The "different strokes for different folks" argument was valid five years
> ago when there wasn't much in the market to choose from, now anyone building
> or maintaining their own CMS will be either investing a lot of money into a
> system that *may* produce a return on investment or is simply below par in
> comparison to what the market now offers (both in commercial and open source
> solutions).
>
> All boils down to a very big case of reinventing the wheel...
>
> Martin
>
> Marius Coomans wrote:
>
> 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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