RE: UKNM: Broadvision

[Kief Morris]

 > Well this has probably been asked before but what do we all think of

 > Broadvision?  http://www.broadvision.com


It is possible to get a functional site up pretty quickly with BV, 

as long as your needs are pretty straightforward, i.e. standard 

content structures, ecommerce, etc. The basic functionality is 

pretty much there out of the box.


Whinges:


Massively overpriced, their closed/proprietary architecture and

deliberately small market (i.e. only companies able to spend

6-7 figures) mean it is unlikely to become used widely enough to 

create a large market of skills and add-ons. So you are guaranteed 

to spend tons on support, recruitment, training, bespoke development

and consulting until BV dies off (and you have to move your business

to an entirely different platform) or moves to a more widely 

supported technical architecture such as Java/EJB or ASP/COM. To be

fair, they have stated they intend to move to EJB, but this

is several releases away, and is likely to retain its proprietary

architecture.


Also, many of the capabilities their pre-sales crew tell you about 

may turn out (post-sale) not to be available yet, or only be 

available for an old version and really shouldn't be used with the

current version (e.g. web-based discussion forums).


The content on a BroadVision site is not accessible to

search engines, so you can expect to work that much harder

promoting your site.



Kief Morris

Technology Director

bitBull Ltd.

http://www.bitBull.com 



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