Ben,

Here at Hertfordshire we are also using Shado and I can confirm John's
comments. We run on an Oracle/Solaris platform but started development on
SQLServer/W2000 while we were waiting for our server and it ported over
very easily.

One of the big advantages of Shado that we found was that it is
sufficiently 'out of the box' that you can get it up and running quickly
but it still has depth if you want to be more sophisticated and interact
with it programmatically (Using ColdFusion MX).

I would be happy to go into more detail if you wish to contact me directly.

Best wishes,  Tom Short


>Date:         Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:47:26 +0100
>Reply-To:     Jon Alsbury SYSS x4081 <[log in to unmask]>
>Sender:       Managing an institutional web site
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>From:         Jon Alsbury SYSS x4081 <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: CMS systems
>Comments: cc: Ben Parish <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
>To:           [log in to unmask]
>
>Ben,
>
>we were in a similar situation last year -- after careful consideration we
>bought Shado went live on our new site in October 2002.
>
>What really swung it for Shado was it's flexibility (for the web designers),
>ease of use (for the content providers) and ease of implementation and
>management (for me!).  The others we looked had their strengths but
>ultimately lost out because they either forced the designers to work in a
>particular way, had unintuitive UIs and authoring tools, or would have taken
>much longer to implement.
>
>Our overall impression of Shado / Straker has been very positive.  Straker
>have recently selected us to be their UK HE reference site, so if you'd like
>to pop up to Holloway Road for a chat about our experiences to date (warts
>and all!) you'd be very welcome.
>
>Good luck with your project,
>
>regards
>
>Jon
>
>Jon Alsbury
>Senior Web Developer
>Systems and Services
>London Metropolitan University
>
>t: 0207 314 4231
>e: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
>> Date:    Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:56:40 +0100
>> From:    Ben Parish <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: CMS systems
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We are coming close to decision time for selection of our Content
>> Management System. It is proving difficult to decide between the
>> shortlisted suppliers Reddot and ShadoMx.
>>
>> Both appear to have different advantages and disadvantages. Does anyone
>> have any experiences positive or negative of using these systems? Both use
>> similar yet different publishing models. We are interested in serious
>> limitations of one system over another that we may have overlooked.
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> --
>> Ben Parish
>> Web Server Administrator
>> IT Department
>> London Institute HEC
>> Tel: 020 7514 6217
>> Fax: 020 7514 6046
>
>
Tom Short,
Director of Corporate e-Business Development,
University of Hertfordshire,
College Lane,
Hatfield,
Hertfordshire,
AL10 9AB.

Tel: +44 (0)1707 284076
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