CTO CONNECTION: Picking the right CMS - Choosing a content management system for your business can be the most important decision you make.(Buyers Guide)

AS THE TECHNOLOGY world continues to blaze by and talk of Web services heats up the land, one issue continues to pop up in nearly all of my conversations with technology folks: CMS (content management systems).

For most people, a CMS is something that makes it simple for nontechnical end-users to contribute content to a Web site, and this usually means elements of workflow and approvals, management of data and metadata, and an agnostic view of data-output formats. For most people not directly involved in the day-to-day management of a corporate Web site, content management seems like yesterday's news -- you buy Vignette or Interwoven, install it, and you're done, …