Credit Crunch 'Good News' For Content Management Buyers

Credit Crunch 'Good News' For Content Management Buyers

The current financial climate is likely to have a profound impact on the content management industry next year, prompting consolidation and placing buyers in a stronger position to negotiate deals, according to CMS Watch.
The analyst firm's predictions for the year ahead suggest that increasingly low valuations for some of the smaller web content management vendors could prompt many to sell or merge.



Tony Byrne, founder of CMS Watch, also argued that buyers should be able to negotiate with enterprise content management (ECM) suppliers on upfront licence fees, although he warned that vendors are less likely to budge on consultancy and servicesfees. CMS Watch suggested that IT support buyers should give a cautious welcome to the new version of Microsoft's SharePoint, which could arrive in beta by the end of the year.