Re: CMS Review: Bricolage on the Nautis Project

Phillip Smith wrote:
> 
> Not entirely flattering with quotes like "the
Bricolage project should
> be considered dead" -- and it could certainly
benefit from a bit more
> fact checking (e.g., "Wheeler offers multiple
levels of paid support,
> ranging from $7,500 to $120,000 annually") -- but
thorough nonetheless:
> 
> http://www.nautis.com/2007/08/17/cms-review-bricolage/

> 
> -- 
> Phillip Smith,
> Simplifier of Technology
> Community Bandwidth
> 
> 

Just read this, and fact checking is certainly in order.

"Delivery options that WCMS owners have come to take
for granted such as
blogs, wikis, and FAQ tools are missing from
Bricolage."

"The lack of an inline editing feature is also a
serious drawback."

"Bricolage is built specifically for Linux"

"For all of its strengths, perl seems to be going the
way of the dinosaur."

"Bricolage has no virtualization module to view a site
in its
pre-production state."

To me the article appears to be thoroughly inaccurate.

- cameron

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, cdmiller wrote:
> To me the article appears to be thoroughly inaccurate.

Hehe. ;)

I should've replied more...
I was just amused by how our reactions to the article
were completely different.
More comments inline:

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, cdmiller wrote:
> Just read this, and fact checking is certainly in
order.
>
> "Delivery options that WCMS owners have come to
take for granted such as
> blogs, wikis, and FAQ tools are missing from
Bricolage."

Is this not true?


> "The lack of an inline editing feature is also a
serious drawback."

First, do you not agree that it lacks inline editing?
I think it does, if by inline editing we mean the ability
to, say, click on a previewed page and edit it in place.
I agree with him that that'd be an awesome feature to have.


> "Bricolage is built specifically for Linux"

That's obviously wrong.
Being generous, he probably was thinking Unix-like,
as opposed to Windows.


> "For all of its strengths, perl seems to be going
the way of the dinosaur."

Very debateable. In fact in the last few weeks, there have
been
arguments about this on use.perl, and I tend to agree that
Perl
seems much less popular than before.
On the other hand, people will argue that Perl is
continuing
along very strongly, just it doesn't get much attention.
I don't know... I mean, look at David - he got a Ruby job.


> "Bricolage has no virtualization module to view a
site in its
> pre-production state."

I didn't understand what he meant by that one.