David Walker has put up a precis of Forrester Research's "Content ManagementHypergrowth" report. Writes Walker:

Forrester has examined a dozen commercial CMSs, including well-known solutions from Vignette, Broadvision, nCompass and Interwoven. Forrester's winner, Open Market Content Server, scored a mere 3.0 out of five ... Forrester concludes that today's CMS offerings are "immature", that none adequately addresses all needs, and that the vendors all have very different visions of how the CMS will evolve. It also warns that organisations that have bought CMSs are going to run into problems maintaining and customising them - and that they are likely to discover nasty mismatches between their CMS and other software, such as application servers and outside systems. 'Owner satisfaction will be short-lived', Forrester concludes...