Web Management Software

[Rzepa, Henry]

There has been a recent spate of annoucements for management software
of Web Sites.

The best known is SiteMill from Adobe
(http://www.ceneca.com/Products/SiteMill.html)
which is not yet quite shipping, and is likely to be
expensive.

Then, along comes Clay Basket which looks equally powerful,
appears to be entirely free
(http://www.hotwired.com/userland/yabbadabba/)
and comes with Frontier, a powerful scripting environment.

and from CE Software, WebArranger
(http://www.cesoft.com/) of which the first 5000 copies appear
to be free.

I have not yet tried any of these, but I do notice that ALL THREE are
Macintosh products only! As you might guess, I am less
familiar with Windows-95 and Windows-NT solutions.
Does anyone know if they exist for these platforms?

A few months ago, I would have said that Unix based Web
server solutions were probably the best. However, with this
flow of software coming along for the Mac (and Windows?)
I am less certain now.

Might I ask the list to respond with say

a) the platform they have chosen to serve from
b) whether site management software is yet in regular use?

Our own server is SGI, on which we run NCSA HTTP 1.4
as the production server, with Netsite and Hyper-G as
experimental servers (may also try out Apache).

Site management is currently Hyper-G as an experiment
and also Harvest.

PS If you wish to respond, don't change the subject line, so
we can maintain the thread!

Dr Henry Rzepa,  Department of Chemistry,  Imperial College,  LONDON SW7 2AY;
rzepa at ic.ac.uk via Eudora Pro 2.1.3; Tel  (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171
594 5804.
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