Phase I of the WCM Evaluation project is nearing completion.

The survey analysis is complete, and ~75% of the requirements comparison has been completed.

One challenge has been evaluating products that are open source. In many cases, you can't just contact a vendor to have your questions answered. Instead, you have to dig through documentation, demos, and user forums to get the answers. On a positive note, most of the time installing the software yourself (if you have the right server infrastructure available) is pretty trivial, so that has worked out as another easy approach to completing our evaluations.

Once the requirements evaluation for Phase I is completed, the Core group will meet to review the results and select a subset of products to participate in Phase II of the process: structured demos by the vendor for the Core Group and possibly Advisory Group members.