The EContent100 Radar

This contest provides a nice overview on what (some) people think is important or influential in terms of technique and impact with regards to e-content (don't call it e-business ... this term is out). SocialText is one of the EContent100 winners in the Collaboration & Knowledge Management category, together with (oh,... got a Server Error in '/' Application. on their site) Jabber, SharePoint, Livelink, MindServer and WebEx. OK, that is at least one Wiki solution. Good for all of the Wiki community, but bad for Wikis not as visible as SocialText. Although I see OpenSource products on the Econtent100 radar commercial once dominate obviously. Probably most FOSSies don't care for the reasons. But delivering good quality software is getting harder these days as a lot of projects seem to be running out of steam, loosing ``momentum''. But other's do create a hell of a momentum out of a sudden. Joomla is one example. Joomla is a Mambo fork even if they call it a ``re-branding effort'' (i.e. security patches don't apply to both etc). We will see what happens given some time. Maybe Joomla is to Mambo what Xorg is to XFree86 getting back to coding, ``continuing development'' how they re-frame it politely in their FAQ.

Nevermind, as nice and informing as the list of products on EContent100 is -- and their justification of being elected -- there are still the interesting small products that can make your day, teach you a lasting lesson.

Well, I strolled over the econtentmage.com site and was at least expecting the site to hold to its own quality and standards. They don't, in short. Try searching for ``wiki'' or ``SocialText'' ... no hits after waiting for a crawling snake; the root document still fails to render and produces a server error. See, they are all cooking with water.