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LifestreamImagine the shock when I realized that the city (where I live) had redesigned their web site (and poorly so) using EpiServer. It’s the same server software used by the local university (as reported in #845) which I then saw as a mark of decay and bad judgement.
Another win for ASP and outrageous server and licensing costs. Again, I could have done that open source and at a fraction of the cost. I would have done it for free, damn it, just to do my part in putting closed source concepts such as EpiServer and Microsoft’s ASP out of business. Hurrah, ignorance prevails again.
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So what open-source CMS would u have choosen instead?
(- No PHP sites thanks).
No PHP sites? Isn’t that the point. Obviously I would have chosen a PHP solution with a MySQL database. Both seem to do fine for some of the largest websites on the Internet so for this purpose they would both be more than sufficient.
As for the specific CMS I would of course need to look at the requirements. Specifically multi-user support and how / if department staff and / or lecturers need personalized accounts to log in and have their own course content and / or personal sites within the CMS. Or if all of this is in fact handled by dedicated CMS editors, or if staff log in with a master account.
Would I be able to come up with a better solution? Maybe not. Perhaps just an equally bad one. But one that would be open-source and that wouldn’t be hanging on to Microsoft’s skirt tails. This EpiServer just reeks of nepotism, nationalism and hysterical capitalism (as in anti-opensource sentiments) all fermenting incompetence and stifling true innovation. For me, this was a wakeup call that made me realize that Universities can no longer be trusted and have in fact been infiltrated, colonized if you will, by the economic hegemony. "Et in Arcadia ego" I guess.