Replace WordPress with Movable Type, Drupal, ... whatever could be the out-of-the-box alternative to custom building your next content management system.
Larry Dignan: "Part of this 'let’s build our own CMS' disease comes from your typical not-invented-here management practices. Here’s how this plays out: Geeks get together with media folks that like to pretend they know technology.
Then they haggle over requirements, which typically resemble things already out there. But these folks enjoy reinventing the wheel. Then they miss deadlines. In the end, they only to build something that you could get via WordPress–if you’re lucky.
Granted, I’m oversimplifying a bit, but not by much.
The conversations go like this:
Geek: What are your requirements?
Media manager: We’d like to have RSS feeds, ease of use, inline links and other stuff.
Geek: I can build that.
Never once does anyone say, 'Umm. This stuff exists why don’t we just use that?' Enter the Frankenstein content system."
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