Just for the record, Vamosa has been in Boston for the last three years and as a agnostic CMS content migration and governance company we have always thought Boston and the East in general a better location for business than Silicon Valley.
The guys at Day are making the right business decision for talent,access to clients and capital markets. Good move and I look forward to working with them even more in the US and Europe.

Kas

I totally agree with you on the importance of Metadata going forward in the CMS industry. What we are starting to see and is long overdue is a realization by the industry that CMS systems do not really "manage" content well. Most have been designed as publishing applications and now the era of the CMS vendors talking mostly about how easy it is to create content is coming to an end as the market matures.
The real business issues and the one that Kas is really pushing in his blog is that " Metadata" needs to be built in and automated at the point of creation to meet the growing and future requirements of the business users. Metadata is the future for content and CMS systems, as the days of just publish,forget and store are no longer enough.
Kas you are on the money here and a healthy debate on getting content quality processes at the point of creation is long overdue for the CMS industry

George Knox

As a company we are in a unique position to be independent of all CMS vendors and have clients that have migrated into Vignette as well as moved off. I therefore think the whitepaper is no more than a piece of marketing that points out the problems with the industry in general. I suggest rather that than attack Clickability and get hung up on personal issues over who said what in what article, CMSwatch should put some effort into really understanding the issues in the area of migrating from one CMS to another. Everyone in the industry knows this is probably the single biggest problem but remains the least understood.

Alan

I think you are spot on when you look at Open Text as a business model. Critical mass and size is a key factor today in the Enterprise Software space and the Vignette purchase falls exactly in line with that strategy. especially if you are not over paying and earnings enhancing. Many of the technologists and other CMS vendors have been trying for years to dislodge the Vignette base with limited success. Now OpenText have a truly Enterprise WCM customer base which they will maximise. The guys who I think should have bought Vignette are IBM who still need a stronger WCM strategy and product and for the last 3 years have been actively targeting them in the Big Blue accounts(Which is mostly the V base).

George Knox

Agree entirely. The announcement of the Alfresco appliance left me cold and confused to the business value of it. As for Open source, not convinced it is a sustainable business model for VC backed companies

I find this article incredible and naive. I suggest CMSwatch adopt this policy first before it makes a broad statement like this. Most of the CMSWatch blogs are now being used solely to promote their reports. I think a look internally first would be a wise move before criticizing the software industry