US federal IT budgets continue to expand, but not evenly across departments and programs, and spending for non-security IT projects falls under unprecedented scrutiny today.
It's tax day today in the USA. And this year, US citizens will contribute about two-tenths of a cent each to purchase a comprehensive set of Vignette tools and services to support a novel experiment.
In an excellent critique of many ECM fallacies (check out OpinionWatch, above), Jim Howard makes a strong case for basing web content management projects around departments or even workgroups.
Should major CMS software vendors also provide their solution as a hosted service? None of them do right now (though some of their partners have set up ASPs).
If you're a prospective software buyer, we can already guess what you think: they suck... Aussie consultant James Robertson has posted a very quick survey allowing you to review, rant, and generally rate CMS product sites.
As faithful CMS Report readers know, many web content management products follow a loosely-coupled or completely decoupled management/delivery architecture, while others bundle content management and delivery tightly within one package.