Posted by Jon on 04/12/06 18:18

"mickey" <miguelportillaATpobrosDOTcom@ignore.this> wrote in message
news:aC8%f.22163$Sf.12908@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> Jon wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I currently have been assigned a task of putting together a comparison
>> chart showing the advantages and disadvantages of Macromedia Contribute,
>> and our in-house developed PHP-based Content Management System.
>>
>> My main question is: What does everyone here use to 'sell' the CMS over a
>> web-based PHP CMS? Our CMS is pretty slick, using PHP, a built-in RTE and
>> MySQL to store content, but I'm really not sure how to sell it to my
>> boss, let alone to customers. Are there arguments here I'm missing
>> besides just being web-based and having the ability to update from any
>> computer? Any ideas are appreciated.
>
> Theres the fact that you are using PHP, on open source technology. Since
> your CMS is developed in house you are in control and not at the mercy of
> a third party. New features or changes can get done quickly to meet your
> needs. Stability, most liley running on Apache, PHP and MySQL, all proven
> technologies, not to mention free to license.

Ahh - the upgrading and customization is definitely something I didn't have
on my radar. Thanks man - I'm basically using that to point out that we can
add basically anything a customer wants - Article administration/searching
and the like.

Anything else is appreciated - now that I'm looking at the doc, I think it's
pretty solid so far.

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