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Marqui's CMS is a service, not a product

This post is part of the Marqui Sponsorship program. I've told a few people who had questions about Marqui that my own company would be unlikely to adopt the product for any of our projects because we don't code or work with Microsoft's Active Server Pages. Thierry LeVasseur, Marqui's founder, sent me a clarification via email:

Yes, it's true, the tool is programmed with ASP, but the web properties you build with Marqui are completely platform and code independant. We are the only CMS that can be used as a development platform for both .NET & J2EE. We have clients managing their Java on UNIX, PHP on Windows, CFM, XML, XHTML, even companies producing exclusively Word documents to a file server, etc, etc. This is why our partners love us so much. There are NO restrictions to the code or platform you can use.

Marqui is a hosted service, not a product that you install and host yourself. Marqui will ftp your content to your server based on templates you set up. Your technical people control the templates through one interface, and your content people submit content through another. It would be interesting to see how this compares to higher end CMS solutions - Vignette, for instance, or Interwoven. If you've seen or done comparisons, please post a comment.

jon posted this at 3:10 PM
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Jon - small question, when you post on Marqui, can you include a link to the company? (I would imagine best case for them being a link that is either tagged as coming from your site, or perhaps even better is a page they set up for your readers who have questions?)

I am a consultant, with at least one client for whom I have recently evaluated large scale content management/collaboration systems - I wanted to quickly look at Marqui to see what they do and whether or not they might be a fit for my client.

Shannon

Posted by: Shannon Clark | December 11, 2004 2:37 PM

Excellent point! Note that there's a link to Marqui on the site, in the left nav.

http://www.marqui.com/

Posted by: Jon Lebkowsky | December 22, 2004 7:41 AM