Europe's web content management vendors are making a mark in the US
European web content management vendors storm the US
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12 May 2009, Phil Muncaster , V3
A new wave of web content management (WCM) vendors from Europe and the UK is making a big splash in the US, according to the latest research from CMS Watch.
The analyst firm's Web CMS Report 2009 features interviews with WCM customers worldwide and evaluates 42 solutions in the market.
On the .Net side, the report found that vendors such as Bulgaria's Telerik and Sweden's EpiServer are challenging Ektron and Sitecore at the low to mid-range of the market, as vendors compete to fill the gap left by the poor adoption of SharePoint as a WCM platform.
And in the open source WCM market, CMS Watch noted that Norway's eZ Publish, Germany's TYPO3 and Belgium's Drupal have all expanded beyond their original geographies.
But the analyst firm urged WCM customers to consider due diligence before investing in any new vendor.
"Crossing the Atlantic in either direction is very hard for a web CMS vendor, " said CMS Watch founder Tony Byrne. "Building effective support structures takes years, so customers should carefully weigh any newcomer's current abilities as well as long-term staying power."
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This is a silly article
All three of the open source products mentioned are widely used in the U.S., have good community support, and have commercial support options this side of the pond.
Posted by User of Typo3 and Drupal, 13 May 2009
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Ektron made its early income by licensing its eWebEditPro rich text editor to the likes of Vignette, Percussion. It has since licensed the RAD Editor from Telerik, so if the report is accurate it is somewhat ironical that Telerik's WCM offering is eroding some of Ektron's market share.
Posted by Marco Gabbiani, 13 May 2009