From: "Ausum Studio" <ausum_studio@hotmail.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Subject: Re: [Zope] Macromedia Contribute Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:21:38 -0500
Macromedia is just trying to fill the gap between static and dynamic content handling, I'm afraid aimed to those sites that Dreamweaver graciously contributed to deploy, but that now are just leaking everywhere.
They shouldn't market Contribute as a new software product, but as a compensation to their customers to whom they made believe they could maintain a site with Dreamweaver, because DW was never a tool for publishing and maintaining. That illusion for many webmasters might already have come to an end by now, but with this tool I guess their sites can still have a little more breath.
Well. The presentation was cool and if I wouldn't knwow what I know, I could have bougth that as a solution to 'my organisations' publishing and website management problems, if there were such. Contibute is a nice try atleast. Macromedia has been going steadily to the world of server side development with buying Allaire and starting to create solutions like Flash communications server. Contribute can be a first step of Macromedia stepping into the world of low tech content management, which could mean that the next steps could be introducing server side additions to their products to provide their customers very simple out of the box solution. Or if contribute is a bomb - it can easily disappear from the surface of the globe. This is what happened with sitespring: http://www.macromedia.com/software/sitespring/ In any case it will be extremely interesting to follow Macromedia's steps, since they have a lot to do with their current product portfolio. -huima