Vignette Beefs Up, When Will IBM?

By cmswire Aug 26, 2003

Vignette has announced further integration of its flagship portal product (read Epicentric's acquired portal server) by adding new features supporting collaborative workspaces.

Ok, so this posting is a bit off topic, being largely focused on Vignette's new collaboration features, but the release also spends some time lauding the relative success of Vignette's [Epicentric] portal server in the market.

Why are we posting this here? Because there is a question begged (or perhaps just lingering in our minds) in the article. According to the cited research conducted by Morgan Stanley, the Vignette portal is #3 in implementations behind IBM and home-brewed solutions. The convergence and inter-relations between CMS and portals is a market fact these days. And again, IBM is number one in portals.

So here's the question: When is IBM going to get their CMS ducks in a row? The recent acquisition of Aptrix is (in our opinion) not the answer here. Atprix is Web CMS, but it is based on a Lotus Domino solution. The question lingers..

Read the Vignett press release.