[Zope] Macromedia Contribute

[Heimo Laukkanen]

> 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