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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:35:44PM -0500, mdthomas AT mindspring.com wrote:
> let's say you had to advise someone on the best
> way to build personalization in to their web
> site for both declared and anonymous web site
> users. What tools/app servers (BroadVision,
> Blue Martini, etc.) would you suggest?

I've heard so many awful things about Broadvision that I'd be loath to
recommend it to my worst enemy. Peter Merholz catalogued a few of the
more glaring lacunae here:

 http://www.peterme.com/bvsucks/

It's a bit old, and hopefully BV has addressed many of these problems.
But IMHO, it remains one of the more ridiculously expensive "solutions"
out there.

But beyond that knee-jerk reaction to BV, I'd be curious as to how the
"someone" envisions "personalization" fitting into their site - what is
the scope of their requirements, in other words? And why would you
consider paying money for generalized bloatware in the first place?

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