Reader's Comments

-- Christopher Traynor, March 1, 1999

After reading the complete documentation i just could not understand what exactly Vignette StoryServer is.I'm a ASP professional.How can it will be useful to me? and you are saying that TCL programming...what it is...And this Vegnette Server is compatiblle with ASP(Active server pages)...please send me the mail with all details... Regards Ramchandrareddy.r

-- ramchandrareddy rupireddy, December 20, 2000

The review of Story Server is quite outdated... The product now offers extensive content managment, personalization and cache management.

Yes, cache management is important... if you perform a database operation for every page generation then you still need to get that information from the database, process it, format it in HTML, then deliver it to the client. With Vignette's patented cache management, the generated HTML is cached, and hence delivered without the processing overhead. This is part of what the industry calls scalability.

-- Sakes ForHire, January 26, 2001

This is a rather simplistic and biased view of Vignette. From programming in tcl off and on for the past 5 years, it is simple and felxible enough to provide a custom Content Management App. in a relatively short period of time. Further customization of this software would create a "Microsoft-like" product, totally inflexible and full of bugs.

-- Chris Pena, February 11, 2003

I was a developer for the now defunct Europeaninvester.com. To impress their investors and guarantee a solution, they bought Vignette StoryServer for $250,000. When they opened the box and installed the OS on the Sun server, then added Netscape enterprise and Oracle. whew! everything is installed and ready to go. Oops, it doesn't do anything. StoryServer gives you an inferior development environment compared to Visual Studio and your stuck using a scripting languge to create your applications. Vignette was so proud of their caching technique, but If you have a lot of concurrent users, the system will fail if you have even one db connected page not cached. Caching the results of a web page instead of caching the actual query used, like with SQL server is a waste of time, because you lose the true dynamic environment. You end up designing web pages rather than web applications. RAW asp.net is FAR FAR superior to Vignette in every way shape and form, why Vignette is still around Is beyond me.

Developer's listen. If your company has invested at least a quqrter of a million dollars for the StoryServer application, they won't have much left for you and you will be stuck in a shitty scripting language environment and you will hate your job. Been there done that. ASP.net is free with the operating system, HUGE support and all that money that went to to Vignette can go to you... Simple.

Vignette is a scam preying on the start-up company hoping that buying a $250,000 product will guarantee results.

-- Tony Skiens, January 19, 2007