As CNET did before them, Salon is spinning off their house-built content management system (which, incidentally, they decided to build instead of licensing Vignette a couple years ago) as a separate company: "Creation Engines [horrible name, btw! -ev], the name of the new company, plans to sell custom installations of the Salon Publishing System (SPS) -- which also includes built-in syndication abilities -- to other Web publishers, says a source close to Salon." Jakob Nielsen, who, despite not being a software industry analyst or CMS expert (as far as I know), was asked his thoughts on this move, remarked, ''Salon has a big opportunity, so does Oracle, and anybody who can recruit 100 or so good programmers.'' If you ask me, a company than can attract 10 good programmers/web people has a hell of a lot better chance of creating something usable.