On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 15:46, Graham Sarjantson wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone know why it is apparently impossible to find a NON Perl or > PHP-based Content Management System? What I am ideally looking for is an > Open Source .Asp or C# based CMS using an MS Access or an MS-SQL-Server > database. Alternatively a proper WYSIWYG (read: XP lookalike :-) system > with a decent API/development tool would suffice. Any suggestions?.. >
pillarsoftware.com (I think that's it) has an ASP-based CMS, but it's not open source. I had spoken to the owner a couple weeks back and there was a possibility of the next version being an open source product - you may want to check with him. Generally, however, the cost of entry into the MS market is higher than it is for other markets (PHP and Perl being 2) simply because of the initial toolset cost. There will be many people that say 'oh, the cost of the licensing is insignificant'. Maybe to some people, it is. But to many people who are just starting out, trying to equip 3-4 people with Windows 2000 + SQL Server and Interdev and whatever else people need is not inexpensive. Perhaps relative to what you get it's a good value, but someone can have a Linux box with PHP, Apache and MySQL setup and running for a couple hundred bucks. Especially in developing countries, where many free software packages come from (PHPNuke, for example), the cost of MS technologies (and Oracle and IBM and others) is too prohibitive to develop with. Michael Kimsal http://www.logicreate.com 734-480-9961 -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
