Fill in the blanks: "Commercial content management systems cost an
average of $_________ to $_________, before customization."

I would be satisfied with a sample size of 20 CMS vendors, and pleased
with a sample size of 30.

Hi,

CMS Software costs anywhere from $0.00 to $100,000 US per processor

Content management systems range as much in price as they do in
features, support, and customized code options.  The list below shows
a sampling between high-end/high-priced content managers and open
source systems.  Just because the system is open source, doesn't mean
it is not high-end, For instance Evolution is a very good system, and
could probably fill the need of any commercial web site, and has the
advantage of having all the source code available for your own
programmers to change or alter as required.  I hope this list meets
all of your needs. There are two sections, the first are prices which
I could get as close to flat rate is possible and the second is a list
of the ones I had to call and couldn't really get this straight answer
from them, because they see the system is having too many variables to
nail down a price without a great deal of negotiation.


Microsoft Content Managment Server
http://www.microsoft.com/cmserver/howtobuy/default.htm
$42,999 US per processor

Midgard
http://www.midgard-project.org/
Midgard is a freely available framework for Content Management Systems
and other information management solutions. Midgard provides
developers with an easy-to-use framework built on the common Apache,
PHP and MySQL components.


OpenCMS 
http://www.opencms.com/opencms/opencms/index.html
OpenCms allows a company to maintain a website with little or no help
by an external agency or internet professional. To achieve this,
OpenCms hides the complexity that is still involved when publishing in
the Internet.

Webgenz CMS
http://www.webgenz.com/register.html
$95.00

CMS Project on SourceForge
http://cms.sourceforge.net/
Open Source 

adenin
http://www.adenin.com/diCMS.asp
Quoted Price based on Traffic and Servers

RedHat.com Content Management
http://www.redhat.com/software/ccm/cms/
Software is free, support deals can go up to $75k per year depending
on what you want and how much they customize it for you and all kinds
of other variables.

SiteWorksPro
http://www.siteworkspro.com/order_content_management_php_cms.php
Up to $299.00


Content Plus
http://www.cmssolutions.com/index.cfm?page=content&cat=2
Typical costs $4198.50


Studio 2
http://www.s2o.co.uk/products/cms/pricing.htm
Pricing starts at just £250 with a number of options available

WebWord
http://cms.webword.biz/price.php
Starts at $159.00

SiteMason
http://www.sitemason.com/products/businesscms.html
Existing website design to SiteMason template conversion: $500.00 per
template (HTML to XSL)
Custom template and graphic design: $1,500.00 to $3000.00 per template
Additional training: $100.00 per hour
Custom Development/Programming: $150.00 per hour
Custom Web Services/Tool Configuration: $100.00 per hour


Liquid Elements 
http://www.liquidthinking.co.uk/products/elements/prices.asp


Tenstream Web Content Management
http://tenstream.net/solutions/pricing


Ektron
http://www.ektron.com/content-management-solutions.cfm
$23,999 starting price of high end system


MediaWeb Solutions
http://www.mwsolutions.com/products/sitecm/pricing.htm
Design fees vary based on the needs of the client and can range from
$250 for a pre-designed template, to $10 000 or more. Design costs
tend to scale with the cost of the license reflecting the importance
of the web to the organization.



ADXStudio
http://www.adxstudio.com/default.aspx?DN=40,5,Documents
Low end cost $2,670.00


Frontier
http://frontier.userland.com/
Package costs $899 

Vignette
www.vignette.com
Headquarters based in the USA: European countries with offices
include; UK, Netherlands, Germany, France, Sweden
high-end CMS like Vignette can cost upwards of $100,000 for the
software alone

Labyrinth
http://www.labyrinth.ie/what_we_do/enterprise_ecommerce.asp

Jahia
http://www.jahia.com/jahia/Jahia/site/jahia_com/op/edit/pid/137
About $5000.00 per server

Makina Corpus
http://en.makina-corpus.org/index.php/ccms
Open Source

Evolution
http://www.envolution.com/
OpenSource

eWok
http://www.openfusion.com.au/labs/ewok/
OpenSource


phpCMS
http://phpcms.de/
OpenSource

PHP Slash
http://phpslash.sourceforge.net/
Open Source. This is a PHP version of the www.slashdot.com CMS system

The Free Speech
http://www.thefreespeech.org/initiate/projects/scam/
Open Source
Demo Site at http://www.thefreespeech.org/initiate/projects/scam/demo.shtml

Super Charged
http://www.superchargedsoftware.com/pick/
Commercial Licence $99.00

Tiki
http://tikiwiki.sourceforge.net/
OpenSource




Others on a Price by Package system, they don't have a set price for
support and software. Ranges are between $20,000 and $100,000
depending on what you want to start out with and if you are going to
want your own developers working on the code.

 www.interwoven.com
Headquarters based in the USA: European countries with offices
include; UK, Germany, France, Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland.

 www.reddotsolutions.com
Headquarters based in Germany: European countries with offices
include; UK, Germany, Poland

 www.mediasurface.com
Headquarters based in the UK: other European countries with offices
include; Netherlands.

 www.documentum.com
Headquarters based in the USA: European countries with offices
include; UK, Germany, France.

red ebusiness cms
http://www.redebusiness.co.uk/redemanager/index.html



Other Aticales of interest

How to evaluate a content managment system
http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/kmc_evaluate/

Content at what cost
http://www.econtentmag.com/r16/2002/white8_02.html


Searches

CMS +"Content Management" +Pricing or +Purchase

Thanks, 

webadept-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by zeta-ga on 15 Jan 2003 08:25 PST

webadept-ga,

Thanks for your answer. You provided some helpful information.
However, by specifying "commercial" CMS's, I meant to preclude
open-source options.

I understand that the question could have been more explicit, so I am
willing to complete our transaction, but my rating will be three
stars. If you'd rather go for a higher rating, then here is some
additional information:

Our company uses Zope with Plone to build websites with custom content
management systems. What I want to be able to say is that we save our
customers $________ by using an open-source system rather than a
commercial CMS.

http://www.zope.org
http://www.plone.org

Thanks again for your efforts, and let me know how you'd like to
proceed.


zeta-ga

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Clarification of Answer by webadept-ga on 16 Jan 2003 11:53 PST

I got your clarification, just wanted to drop a note here and say that
I was working on my responce.

thanks, 

webadept-ga

Since the transaction has gone through, I'll assume that no further
clarification is forthcoming, and the three-star rating stands. Thanks
for your efforts.