Reader's Comments

I came to this page looking for pointers to tools that would be useful for a large company intranet development process that has gotten out of control. Didn't find any, so here are some in case others arrive similarly disappointed. Look at INSO's Dynabase, Interwoven's TeamSite, 2Bridge Software, NetObjects TeamFusion. Watch out for site management tools that put all the content into their own proprietary database-driven systems and generated the site dynamically; most dynamic database driven sites don't need to be, and you lose performance and create a single point of failure. Also stay away from proprietary template systems like Allaire Cold Fusion, FrontPage extensions and Vignette StoryServer. They lock you into a single vendor application that loses the openness to new tools and techniques your web site deserves.

-- Dave Britton, June 8, 1998