I’m pleased to report that Mark Logic is now officially on the map — the CMS Watch 2010 Content Technology Vendor Map, that is.
Each year CMS Watch makes a subway-style map of content technology vendors. This year you can find Mark Logic on the brown line, in between Trisoft and AuthorIT, neither of which I’d previously heard of making me wonder which part of content-town the brown line serves. (Somehow, I’m thinking we’re not on the Upper East Side.)
In fact, both Trisoft and AuthorIT are component content management vendors. While I don’t view MarkLogic as a component content management system, I can understand why — in a world of limited boxes/categories — someone like CMS Watch would place us there. MarkLogic is an XML Server, a special-purpose DBMS for XML. One application of that server is component content management. There are also, however, many others.
Happily, the brown line terminates in mid-town with EMC on one side, but scarily after passing PTC and JustSystems heads off ominously to the North to a place called “XML land,” which is either where Santa Claus lives or where Mark Logic more properly belongs. However, since it’s presumably inhabited by elves and off the map, I’ll be happy to stay on the brown line with EMC and Adobe.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Adriaan Bloem // Dec 2, 2009 at 8:03 am
You're right, that's not really the Upper East Side. It's more like the East End
2 sunny // Dec 3, 2009 at 12:35 am
Being a MarkLogic professional, happy to see its prsence in the Map.
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