Online Journalism Scandinavia: Mecom’s Danish arm will cut costs with open-source CMS
Mecom-owned Berlingske Media, Denmark’s biggest daily newspaper publisher, has decided to ditch its costly online publishing system for open-source software Drupal.
As Journalism.co.uk reported earlier this year, Berlingske Media already runs some of its sites on Drupal – a free content management system (CMS).
After a long period of deliberation, the Danish division of Mecom, the ailing pan-European media group headed by former Mirror-boss David Montgomery, has decided to make Drupal its online publishing system of choice.
“It is no secret that economy means a lot to us, but if the system had been unstable and not user-friendly, the price would not have been decisive,” Berlingske’s CEO Lisbeth Knudesen told eJour (in Danish).
She particularly praised Drupal for being so much more flexible than traditional publishing platforms.
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December 23rd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
You are correct in your Drupal assertion. I am using the platform now for another web product. I have absolutely no complaints about the product.
December 24th, 2008 at 10:16 am
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