[TYPO3-UG US] This is just about perfect...

[Alex Heizer]

Documentum is trying to position itself as a Web Content Management 
System, of which it is doing a very lousy job. As a document management 
system, it also isn't doing a very good job.

Okay, so as a WCMS, let's compare apples to apples:

1. To add a page and content in TYPO3, it takes about 20 minutes to 
train a content editor with basic computer skills. With Documentum, 
training lasts 3 hours.
2. To add a page and content in TYPO3, it takes about 2 minutes to 
complete. With Documentum, you need to go through 10 times the number of 
steps and it takes 15 minutes.
3. To create a menu in TYPO3, a content editor adds a page. In 
Documentum, the editor creates the page and adds content (see item 2), 
then has to manually edit the menu, hoping to get the filename correct 
because they need to manually add the filename of the correct page.
4. In T3, the site is represented with a page tree that shows all the 
pages and their respective location in the site. With Documentum, you 
have a big bin of pages that have no indication of their place in the site.
5. In T3, you can copy and paste content into an element. Then, copy and 
paste again. And again. In Doc, you copy, then paste. Then log 
completely out of Windows. Then log back into Windows. Then log back 
into Doc, then copy and paste again. (Only slightly more inconvenient, 
I'd say.)
6. In T3, a content editor can't mess up a page name when they create a 
page, they simply name it and T3 forces a proper name if they use 
illegal characters. In Doc, the editor names the page file, and is 
allowed to use illegal characters, including forward and back slashes.
7. Image processing is a core function of T3. In Doc it's a $50k add-on.
8. To re-use images in different places in T3, in News, for example, an 
editor uploads an image and the extension automatically creates a tiny 
LIST image, then a small SINGLE image, and resizes an oversize image for 
a click-enlarge version. In Doc, the editor needs to create all 3 images 
the exact finished sizes, and upload them all, then choose the correct 
one for each placement. If they they need to use the image at a 
different size in another place on the site, they need to make a 4th 
version, and a 5th and so on, and upload each.
9. In T3 you can force accessibility compliance on your editors. In Doc, 
editors can copy and paste in whatever they want and break compliance at 
any time.
10. T3 runs quickly on a variety of platforms, and delivers pages 
quickly. Documentum runs slower than Windows itself and pages can take 
over 30 seconds to show the first graphic on the page. And this is with 
a <100-page site.
11. Anyone can install, learn and run T3. Doc requires a consultant to 
provide an onsite demonstration on their servers, and you need 
specialized training from Documentum to learn how to set up even a 
simple template.

I am tired of people justifying bad, overpriced software by associating 
it with the word "enterprise". CIOs and other pencil-pushers have wasted 
enough money on 7-figure bottom lines like those of Documentum and 
PeopleSoft by listening to jargon and empty promises that deliver 
one-tenth the promised goods. Badly-made software is badly-made 
software, and a $5mil price tag for an implementation should never be 
the only reason to consider anything as "enterprise"-ready. Sure, if a 
car starts once a month, it technically "works". But if you gave me a 
choice of a free fully-loaded Ferrari that fires up every time, or a 
muddy dump truck with no options that starts every 12th time you turn 
the key and can't move faster than 25 mph... they both *technically* 
work, true. But give me the Ferrari, you can have the other.

Alex

p.s. Enterprise is where Capt. Kirk does his job, not where real 
businesses do theirs.



Reuven Cohen [At work] wrote:

>Lets compare apples to apples here. Documentum  is a large scale enterprise 
>document management system. In comparison TYPO3 is a smaller scale web 
>content management system. TYPO3 would die if we tried to manage 100 million 
>docs within the system.
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>ruv 
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