Manage your website *effectively* with DotNetNuke or Sharepoint 2007- the best CMS tools!
- Anyone in your company can edit content anywhere anytime
- Not proprietary - Both built on top of ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server
- Used by 250,000+ organizations
- Start with DotNetNuke and the modules migrate to Sharepoint Web Parts
- Friendly licensing model...DotNetNuke is free
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What is a Content Management System?
Content Management System (also known as CMS) is a web-based application that allows user without any html knowledge to add, modify and administrate the content of a website using a collection of intuitive tools.
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These is the old screen so you can reminisce... See how much better the UI is in the current version.
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DotNetNuke
DotNetNuke, also known as DNN, is an open source ASP.NET-based content management system used to create easy-to-use, updatable, customizable, and secure content management portals. It is ideal for creating and deploying projects such as commercial websites, corporate intranets and extranets, online publishing portals, and custom vertical applications. DotNetNuke provides automated content management capabilities and tools to maintain a dynamic and 100% interactive data-driven web site.
This collaborative project is quickly becoming the industry standard for scalable portal deployments on the Microsoft platform. With a growing community of over 200,000 users, and a dedicated base of programming professionals, SSW is proud to have one of our developers, Kusal Wijewantha as part of the DotNetNuke Development Team.
What is the DotNetNuke Development Team?
DotNetNuke Development Team is a group of programming professionals who has got together to develop an open source web based Content Management Solution. DotNetNuke version 1.0 was released in December 2002. Since then the team has grown up to include a dedicated base of skilled programmers from many different countries who have demonstrated consistent commitment to the project.
More about DotNetNuke Development Team
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Community Server
Community Server is a rich knowledge management and collaboration platform designed to meet the demands of the most rigorous collaborative needs. It is used by some
of the top 100 companies in the US (Fortune 100), small start-up businesses, schools, and individuals to improve connection, sharing and collaboration. Community Server is perfect for setting up a support system for products, reporting and general information management by organizations or individuals.
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Microsoft Sharepoint 2007
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 improves organisational effectiveness by providing
one unified suite of enterprise-scale applications. This satisfies diverse business-critical needs such as;
managing content and business processes, simplifying how people work together
across boundaries and enabling better informed decision-making.
By making it easier to manage content and streamline processes, it helps organizations derive more value from
their information assets and accelerates everyday business activities. SharePoint Server 2007 enables users
to easily assemble and analyze critical business information from disparate systems, leading to better-informed
decisions at all levels of the organization.
SharePoint Server 2007 enables people to effectively connect with the information and resources they need, both
within and across organizations. Enhanced interoperability support facilitates integration with non-Microsoft IT
investments, while the tight integration into familiar desktop applications and browsers accelerates end-user
adoption.
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SharePoint vs WebSphere: The Final Nail
IBM’s WebSphere Workplace Services Express (WSE) is an "intranet in a box" solution that provides document-management (including workflow, versioning etc), discussion forums, instant-messaging (including presence-awareness), contact lists via your LDAP server, you name it. It's a mature product with a large install-base, and it looks pretty slick. In fact, it does everything that we want in an intranet product.
WSE's major competitor is SharePoint (no surprise) and had each product stacked up against each other.
On the left side of the slide were a series of boxes that made up a SharePoint installation - Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2000, Windows SharePoint Services, Live Communication Server and SharePoint Portal Server?it came in at somewhere around AU$10,000 per processor (ie, in our case, per site).
On the right side of the slide was a single box outlining WSE's feature set. Confusingly it didn't mention the operating system it runs on (I'm pretty sure it needs one! heh heh), so comparing costs might not be quite fair ... but as you'll soon see that's kind of academic. You see, this box also had a price next to it. A per-processor price.
AU$61,000.
Let me break it down for you. IBM and one of their partners, in their own promotional slide, just told us that their major competitor with all the same features is one sixth the price.
Gee ... this is such a hard decision!!!
ps. The most mind-boggling thing about the whole thing is that nobody, not even my boss, seemed to mind! They acted as if there was nothing out of the ordinary with that slide. I was too busy picking my jaw up off the floor to say something like, "Are you TOTALLY INSANE????"
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