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Jeremy -
For our main web site we use a local group that works with New York  
City culturals called Raven Creative. They have their own proprietary  
CMS called Atlas Workcenter. We do not do any of the hosting of either  
the web site or the CMS ourselves, they do it all for us. We access  
the CMS through a web browser to do any updates. Also, our website is  
hosted by them. We like this model, b/c we have no hardware or  
maintenance overhead. We try to outsouce as much of this kind of thing  
as possible. Of course we pay a monthly fee for the privilege.

The only other CMS we have worked with is one created by IBM for us  
based on Lotus Notes and WebSphere, called the e-Publisher. This is  
what we use for updates to the TryScience Web site. TryScience is  
pretty complicated with its own multiuser gaming server, search  
engine, Websphere-DB/2, mail and web/media server. In this case, we do  
the hosting but IBM helps us maintain it all remotely.

I look forward to seeing your new design.

Regards

Stephen Miles Uzzo, PhD.
Vice President, Technology
New York Hall of Science
47-01 111th Street
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, NY 11368
USA
V +1.718.699.0005 x377
F +1.718.699.1341



On Jun 26, 2009, at 7:46 PM, Jeremy Stoller wrote:

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> Greetings! To enhance the justification for our website redesign  
> approach at
> the California Science Center, I need to get some information about  
> what
> other institutions are doing. If possible, please answer the following
> questions...
>
> 1. Is your institution’s website static, or built on a content  
> management
> system (CMS)?
> 2. If you are using a CMS...
>> 1. Which CMS are you Using?
>> 2. When did you start using a CMS?
>> 3. Is it open-source or proprietary?
>> 4. If proprietary, about how much did the software cost?
>
> I’d appreciate any information you can give me.
>
> Jeremy Stoller
> Senior Graphic Artist
> California Science Center
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