Talk:Content delivery platform

Red links
Red links are links to Wikipedia articles that do not exist. It is hard for editors to know which companies are notable. One idea we have used is to Wikilink only to Wikipedia articles that already exist. Also, in a list of companies, a company should only be in a listed if: Just provide a verifiable reason for your edits, don't get too upset. Thanks. Please discuss here anything about this! (This comment is parallel to the earlier one at Talk:Content delivery network) - Colfer2 (talk) 23:19, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It has a Wikipedia article, or
 * A reliable reference is cited to document its notability. Company press releases are not reliable refs.

Disagree with much of this article
I work with software which is described by, and specified by, its customers as a Content Delivery Platform. I do have to declare an interest, therefore, but I'd strongly disagree with all of the content in the current version of the article.

I would describe a CDP as a system for the storage and delivery of content, whereby content requires adaptation or redirection in some form. CDP is a common term in mobile, where the user terminal can take a variety of forms, requiring widespread content adaptation of some content, and multiple versioning of other content forms, from which the CDP must select the most appropriate content for delivery (the delivery process itself being managed by the CDP).

Specifically:


 * I've never heard of some of the companies mentioned, but none of them fit the definition above. Try a simple Google search on content delivery platform - none of these companies appear on the first page. The companies that do appear by and large conform to the definition above, not the definition in this article.
 * the SaaS comment is untrue. Software is procured by customers to deploy as a CDP based on traditional licensing models. It can also be procured on a SaaS model (as is increasingly the case for much software) but most current CDPs (according to the definition above) are in my experience deployed as licensed software. This could however derive from the initial mis-definition of the term.
 * the term precedes the alleged coinage in the article. It's a development of the term Service Delivery Platform, common in the mobile space. Because SDP can refer to many different mobile software and hardware procurement items, CDP has been employed to denote something more specific. Again, a simple Google search would show that the claim to coinage (Dec 2008) is predated by many previous uses of the term, by a number of companies not mentioned in the article.

My view: Either the article is just ill informed, or it breaks Wikipedia's rules on self promotion, or both. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shady18n (talk • contribs) 00:46, 4 May 2009 (UTC)