What is it with Scandinavia and Content Management?

Jun 16

What is it with Scandinavia and Content Management?

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Can you think of any others?  And what is it with those people?  Do they have nothing to do but code during those long winter nights?


Comments

by Objectivist,   June 16, 2009 12:14 PM  

No... but what I do, know is that "fickle" has nothing to do with what you wanted to say.


by Henri Bergius,   June 16, 2009 1:15 PM  

Midgard is mostly Finland, though also other countries around the Baltic sea.


by NotAScandinavianEuropean,   June 16, 2009 3:01 PM  

Meh... and Copenhagen is the capital of Holland, Budapest is right next to Paris, Wisconsin is the southernmost province of Canada and Greenland is part of Denmark.


by Deane,   June 16, 2009 3:41 PM  

Seriously? Wisconsin is in Canada?! I knew it!! Cheese-loving bastards.


by yachris,   June 16, 2009 3:58 PM  

David Heinemeier Hansson (father of Rails) is from Denmark.


by BryanSD,   June 16, 2009 8:50 PM  

Where exactly is the Midwest? No matter which state I visit in the United States...most of the people in those states claim they live in the Midwest!

A few years ago while researching information systems I observed that a lot of serious research papers on the subject were from European countries as well as India. The United States seemed far behind from an academic point of view on the subject of information systems including content management systems.

At the time I was doing the research it seemed to me that Europe and India were already heavily invested in CMS while many US websites were still using static HTML. Why was this? My theory was that US sites were mainly on the Web first when Web CMS wasn't even being considered. Once many of the US site owners built their static sties to their liking, they became complacent and made no further changes. By the time the WWW was in full swing for countries outside the US...those non-US users had the opportunity to work with fresher technology such as CMS applications to build their initial sites.


by Seth Gottlieb,   June 17, 2009 8:00 PM  

How about Escenic in Norway? Plone co-founder Alexander Limi is from Norway. I was thinking that Switzerland has the highest density by land mass: Day (Basel), Magnolia (Basel), Jahia (Geneva), and Lenya (started in Zürich). However, SwissCMS appears to be out of the UK.


by Nitpicker,   June 19, 2009 12:40 PM  

@NotAScandinavianEuropean "(…) and Greenland is part of Denmark." Greenland actually is a province of the Kingdom of Denmark.



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