[technojunkie]

I get what you're saying. When I initially met with the department manager, he was excited about the potential of what we could do to make the website more progressive. He sees what other competing companies do and realizes that if this company wants to stay in its position atop, it needs to jump the gun on staying with the times.

I think it would be an important and interesting step to see a financial institute actually encourage and stand by the decision to help out the development community. The best analogy I can offer is when Comcast started using Twitter to directly talk to people. It was inconceivable that a large, faceless corporation would do this and now it's mainstream. In a similar regard, it would be amazing to see more large enterprises wanting to reach out to the development community and give back in a public way.

They will ultimately choose a proprietary, mature CMS platform. I'm crossing my fingers it's not .NET since it's pretty much a nightmare for front end developers. But, hopefully we can find a balance that allows an agile approach to development but also gives us the flexibility to use forward-thinking technologies to improve the workflow.