Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Week 9 - Content Management in a Bad Economy

The economy came down this past month. Things have gotten pretty bad out in there in the wilderness; layoffs around the U.S. are becoming normal, day-to-day operations. Thankfully, my company has a lot of cash reserves and therefore enough liquidity to get over this hellish economic bump in the road. With regard to our content management status however, we seem to be at a stand still. As stated in prev. post, Dakota had impressed us with it’s knowledge transfer proposal, which we all felt would have put us back on track with implementing our content management system. But due to the current economic climate, we can't get the money to hire these guys.

The only light in this dire situation is that Faltirons is getting worried they won’t get paid. That’s leaves us with a little bit of wriggle room. Rumor has it that the server issue will be resolved soon: Flatirons has offered to subsidize a new server with our Documentum people for just the content management system to run off of, which is a workable solution for both parties.

Hopefully, we can get that end of it handled and finish the implementation of the system. However, the Flatirons contract is about to conclude, giving us just over two weeks to finish testing in 3 different environments (development, stage, and production). Yikes!


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