Perhaps the reason was "eating your own dog food"? A Ruby CMS?

On Mar 7, 2006, at 11:21 PM, gwtmp01 / mac.com wrote:

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> On Mar 7, 2006, at 6:25 PM, John W. Long wrote:
>> We have a crew of enthusiastic, but very busy people. :-) The  
>> design has been in HTML since last summer, but we have wrestled  
>> with picking the right content management system. We finally  
>> decided to do something custom which is almost complete.
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> Thanks for all your efforts.  I'm curious as to what requirements  
> led you to
> create your own CMS?  I'm doing some work/research in this area and  
> I'd like
> to know what was 'missing' from the available systems you  
> considered.  What
> systems did you consider?  Even just a few off the cuff thoughts  
> would be
> appreciated.
>
> Gary Wright
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