Comments on: From Vignette to OpenCMS

By: Sanjuanita Hardt

Sanjuanita Hardt — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:45:05 +0000

Thanks for an interesting article. After looking through different websites I finally found something worth reading.

By: cmsreviews

cmsreviews — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:27:10 +0000

I put “Sales team” in PRO to make a sarcastic joke. Their sales team are very good at telling LIES and DECEIVED the client.

By: cmsreviews

cmsreviews — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:33:32 +0000

Base on my 10+ years experience working with various Content Management Systems (CMS) and 6 months using Vignette I can affirm that Vignette is THE worst CMS I have ever worked with.

I’m working for a large respected Canadian organization and we are very unhappy with Vignette. We are switching to another CMS. I won’t tell the name of the new CMS or the organization. I’m expressing my personal opinion here. And I don’t want to make publicity for the other tool before trying it.

Here are some naked facts about Vignette:

CONS:
- Their tech support is poor and slow. They aren’t able to fix simple Vignette bugs.

- Very expensive in our case $250,000 to $500,000 so far and growing.

- Vignette is mostly a Consultingware: A CMS first developed for a limited number of consulting clients, then hastily rebranded as a “product” matching everybody needs. The fact is it doesn’t match OUR needs.

- Counter-productive tool for employees. Awful workflow.

- Poor documentation & support from Vignette.

- Steep learning curve. Complicated interface.

- Security features are dangerously weak. Easy for concurrents to access sensitive information. A friend of mine is testing security features as a living to prevent hacking, according to his testing it takes less than 5 minutes to hack Vignette and access sensitive information.

PRO: Sales team.

By: Torgen

Torgen — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:26:52 +0000

Open cms seems pretty interesting, anyway, if you have the misfortune of working with Vignette can obtain information and resources in the vignette developer community site.

http://www.vgndeveloper.com

By: Vignette Developer Community

Vignette Developer Community — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:27:17 +0000

I have worked with both cms and I also prefer openCms.
If you are developing with vignette you can found interesting information in the vignette developer community site.
http://www.vgndeveloper.com

By: pcmspace.com » OpenCms - Different Environments

pcmspace.com » OpenCms - Different Environments — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:59:51 +0000

[...] Recently I was involved in one of the OpenCms implementations. My initial thought about the product was that it is not in match with some of the other products in market but after exploring a while I realized its potential and extensibility. In one of the recent post “From Vignette to OpenCms“, Apoorv pointed out its inability to have separate environments like staging and production. I truly agree with it. Here is one of the possible solution to over come it. [...]