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Re: [school-discuss] Metadot and MIT
Whoooaaa that is a strong one.
Your cms matrix is not up to date...
So in Metadot there plenty of features that you describe as missing:
there is an audit trail (for more than 2 years now...), a content
approval system, it does not require LDAP, it runs under ssl, there is
commercial certification (The US Navy just got it), good user
documentation, user training dvd, third party plug-in structure,
newsletter, advanced caching, webstats, SQL database reports, surveys,
etc... In term of scalability Metadot was used to run the 2003
Barcelona World swimming championships... so it speaks for itself here.
Well I guess we did not talk about the same product then...
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Daniel Guermeur - daniel@metadot.com
On Oct 8, 2004, at 4:02 PM, Michael Dean wrote:
if one wants to compare CMS/portals go to cmsmatrix.org. I have some
problems with metadot, which I have looked at in detail for smaller
schools. First, it is written in perl, which when it scales is very
slow. Second, you need mysql or oracle to run it. Fine for big
universities, who usually have Oracle, but if you want an open source
solution in your middleware as well as user applications not so fine.
Mysql also costs money, and is not a comparable (not as good) database
to either Oracle or postgresql. second, it does not provide an audit
trail, no content approval, requires use of LDAP for authentication,
admin is not notified of problems, does not run under SSL, has no
commercial certification or documentation, no online help, does not
provide a structure for third party developer add-ins, no drag and
drop content, no undo, no advanced caching, no database replication,
no content staging, no affiliate tracking, no deployment as a package,
no way to trash old content, no web statistics, no web based
translation management, no workflow engine, no ftp support (even scp),
is not WAI compliant, no webdav support, not xhtml compliant, no cgi
support, no interface localization, not metadata support, is not
multi-lingual, or wiki aware. no chat, no classifieds. No contact
management, no data entry, no database reports, no groupware, no
guest book, no bug reporting/help desk, no HTTP proxy, no surveys, no
tests/quizzes. The keyword here is NO!
One of schoolforge's affiliates was totally trashed last weekend by a
porn marketeer who placed 2500 links to porn sites in the comments
section of every artricle about school software. This is why content
approval and moderation is so important in your software, especially
in grade schools. Also, one would want to audit who does what on your
site, because trashing your site with porn in the US is a felony.
Daniel Guermeur wrote:
Hello all,
Just to announce that Metadot Portal Server software has a new
university user: MIT.
Metadot is used by numerous schools and university including
Berkeley, Pace and many orders for their intranet, extranet or
organization websites. Metadot provides content management,
collaboration and portal (like My Yahoo) functionality. The key
differentiator is the extreme ease of use so that non technical users
can manage the content without asking their busy IT person to help.
See live sites at:
http://www.metadot.com/index.pl?id=2528
Daniel
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