[Web4lib] Cascade CMS?

[Casey Bisson]

David,

I selected Cascade for as the CMS for Plymouth a couple years ago  
(though I use Scriblio to manage the library site). The system does a  
lot of things "right," including opening the right doors to remixing.

At the time we selected it, most of the university's web pages were  
static HTML pages with a few PHP goodies here and there. We're still  
moving those pages, but the important stuff is migrated and it's  
worked well. The company does a good job of solving the few bugs we've  
found and delivers meaningful updates with useful new features.

I can't guarantee that we'll still be using it in a few years, but it  
offers enough extensibility and access so that we should be able to  
migrate away easily if we want to. Then again, that extensibility and  
access may offer what we need to keep it going.


Casey Bisson
__________________________________________

Information Architect
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, New Hampshire
http://Plymouth.edu/
http://MaisonBisson.com/
http://about.Scriblio.net/
ph: 603-535-2256


On Apr 8, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Cloutman, David wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am leading a Web redesign effort at my library. One of the tasks  
> that
> I have been given is to select a CMS to manage our site, so that we  
> can
> do distributed authorship amongst our staff. I looked at quite a  
> number
> of systems, with the only real limitations being that I wanted the
> solution to run on Linux and be written in PHP or Java. To my
> disappointment, the major Open Source solutions were not quite a fit  
> for
> us, for various reasons, but a proprietary system called Cascade,  
> which
> is produced by a company called Hannon Hill, seemed like a good fit.
>
> This system isn't widely used in public libraries, but they have a lot
> of higher educations clients that they say use the system for their
> library Web sites. In these cases, my understanding is that the CMS is
> provided by the school's IT department.
>
> I would be interested in hearing about any experiences that Library
> users have had with Cascade, good, bad, or indifferent. The solution
> isn't terribly expensive, but it isn't free, either, and I'd like to
> know what Library users thought about the system before we lay out any
> money.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - David
>
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