Is the Enterprise market segment attractive? Good examples are Acquia (company behind Drupal with its big community) and eZ Systems (company behind eZ Publish with its dual licensing model). The group is slowly threatened by some of the products from first group with disruptive community size and business models. It is not easy to enter this segment as you need to prove on bigger projects. offering stability, support and integration possibilities.capturing bigger and more complex projects.The segment consists of products generating more than 10M USD yearly. The best overview of this segment is provided by Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Lets call it the Enterprise market segment. as there is no price buyers have the option to switch any time but tend to stick to their communityĪs opposed to Open market segment there are solutions which are not free and not oriented to mass market.suppliers are not powerful, the platforms are commoditized too.substitutes exists in form of social platforms that are making possible to create a simple web presence without a WCMS (like Facebook, Google+, Pinterest), complementary products exists in form of simple ERP, eCommerce, CRM, etc.capital requirements are low, but building a community of developers is not easy and takes time.Developers learn usually one platform and tend to use certain solutions rather than others Brand loyalty is strong as the industry is community driven. There is a lot of code written in existing solutions tested on many projects. There is a lot of tools that are free to use. economies of scale are possible as proved by Wordpress and others.Is the Open market segment attractive industry to be in? Things like developers preference, ease of use and innovation. ![]() Usually, as there are license fees, other things decide on which product to use. Lets put these 3 in one group with all similar systems and call it the Open market segment. Wordpress and Drupal have small company behind that is charging consultancy and hosting (cloud), Joomla is purely community driven. What is interesting is that all 3 have open-source development model, they are free to use, based on LAMP technology (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and can be self hosted (with optional cloud service). Even more interesting is that all 3 are not making much money for the product owners. In terms of pure numbers Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal are the clear top 3. underlying technology (PHP vs Java vs Python vs.deployment model (cloud vs self-hosted ).business model (free of charge vs enterprise vs hybrid).development model (open source vs closed source). ![]() How big is the industry can be viewed on Wikipedia: List_of_content_management_systemsĪs there are so many competitors there are also many levels where they compete: Other either use none or use some unknown system (probably custom made). Statistics show that roughly 32% of those sites use some form of known WCMS. “A web content management system (WCMS) is a software system that provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to create and manage website content with relative ease.” - Wikipedia We will focus on those systems in this postand leave the standards aside as not important for the scope. In recent years web content management systems are dominant tools for building web sites. In the first years of web there were just standards (like HTML) but as the number and complexity of web sites grew lot of tools emerged. In this post we will focus on last 2 segments.
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