[australia] Why home grown CMS?

[James Robertson]

Absolutely agree!

That being said, it's fair to say that most of the 140+ products in
the Australian marketplace started out being "home grown" solutions
(typically in web agencies). Once these have been used, somewhat
successfully, in a few projects, there comes the point when the
organisation says: "hey, I think we may have a *product* here!".

The real challenge is then to become good at the "product" stuff,
and not just the coding. For vendors, this includes release management,
QA testing, upgrade mechanisms, support plans, project management,
etc, etc.

I know of several CMS vendors at the moment that have become seriously
unstuck due to rapid growth highlighting their shortcomings in the
area of "product" fundamentals...

Cheers,
James


> 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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