[ILUG] Vignette

[sanemagazine]

Vignette is not worth it.

It's nice, caching features are cool, and tcl is really quite a nice
scripting language to be playing with (though they implement 7.6 (when
it's now up to 8.2), and don't even think about their own special
bastardised version of tcl commands), but not really worth the hassle.
You're much better off with Midgard.

Even for publishing high volume sites, not worth it, there's a load of
good free stuff out there you can get in and fix, if it annoys you
enough. With StoryServer you're stuck with what they give you.

(Been using it a year now. A painful year. Ah, and we've got it slapped
onto a Sybase database.)

_m

John McCormac wrote:
> 
> Anton Mc Kee wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know how much Vignette Story Server would cost? And also if
> 
> Last time I was looking at it, it was priced in the region of $50K. It
> really depends on your application. Vignette is intended for the top
> end  of the traffic/content market. If you are just pitching to the
> low-medium segment, look at the Midgard Project or Zope. Alternatively
> you could adopt the online.ie model and go insane paying for HW for the
> Oracle backend. :-)
> 
> I think that Nua's Nuapublish schlock is actually heavily based on
> Midgard or something similar since it uses MySQL/PHP with a few glossy
> webpages and scripts added. I reckon that you could have the same thing
> going in a few days just for the cost of a few downloads and a Ubbs
> licence.
> 
> Basically products like Vignette are aimed at operations that actually
> publish on the net repeatedly over the space of a single day (ie a news
> organisation). Somehow I thnk that Vignette will not be too keen on Open
> Sourcing their StoryServer code. However you could always ask.  :-)
> 
> Regards...jmcc
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