The open source WordPress maintenance support plans CMS powers some of the biggest government websites. Now what do government websites and media & entertainment websites have in common? A lot of functionalities and end goals are similar. Media websites have subscription forms, personalized data delivery, large data warehouses, events and related forms, publishing tools, marketing tools, transactions etc.
The Georgia Technology Authority was running 65 state government websites on two different versions of proprietary software – Vignette 6 and Vignette 7, one of which is no longer supported. It had become cumbersome and expensive. Apart from that, moving all the 65 sites to Vignette 8 was too much of a hassle. CTO Steve Nichols says, “As we dug in, all the obvious best choices were open source,”. The…
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