Adobe Experience Manager

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

Adobe's enterprise CMS and digital asset manager for building large multi-site, multi-language web estates.

Adopt it when

A large enterprise runs many brands and sites, already uses Adobe Experience Cloud, and has a budget for implementation partners.

Watch out

Very expensive to license and implement, with long projects and a need for specialised Java developers.

Ready for

Production-ready

Runs as

Cloud service and self-hosted server

Built with

Java and Apache Sling

What the license allows

Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the maker's description and Wikipedia. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

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Under it

Every program, Adobe Experience Manager included, runs on a microchip.

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape