RE: Timeline of CMSs? - let's make one

Hi Bob,

In the Netherlands the first cms vendors I know of started in 1998.
- Pointer, now Smartsite
- Twin... (...something, I forgot the name), now Tridion

We were in the 'Frontpage era' in that period ...
Some worked with ColdFusion, though.

Cheers,

Erik


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Doyle [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: vrijdag 28 mei 2004 3:59
> To: Lennart Regebro
> Cc: murilo.pinto-/1Rj0zDCqbBfyO9Q7EP/[email protected]; [email protected]; Frank 
> Gilbane; Erik M. Hartman; Peter D. Dresslar
> Subject: Re: [CMS] Timeline of CMSs? - let's make one
> 
> 
> Hi Murilo, Lennart, Frank, Peter, Erik,
> 
> If we can't find a timeline, let's start one. 
> 
> I put a draft timeline for CM up on the CMS Wiki, which is 
> proving to be 
> a good collaborative authoring tool for the CMS community. See 
> http://www.cmswiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=HistoryOfCMS
> 
> [We now have over 170 defined terms in the CMS Glossary. 
> http://www.cmswiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=CmsGlossary.  Also 
> playing as 
> a web service at  http://cmsglossary.com]
> 
> The CMS timeline is a very rough start only, so we need people who 
> remember things. Ask your older associates.
> 
> I would like to ask Frank Gilbane for a complete set of his Gilbane 
> Report (I have them back to 2000, with his important "What Is CM" 
> article).  I will read through all the press releases and catalog the 
> company and product names that he recorded, so the timeline will show 
> them coming (and going, sigh!).
> 
> As part of the CMSML project (http://www.cmsml.org) we plan 
> to ask all 
> the CMS vendors and developers for a brief history of their 
> product.  We 
> also plan to do interviews with the executives to explore who 
> did what 
> when - if we can get past their marketing blitzes).
> 
> I also hope to look up some of the major executives who started CMS 
> companies long gone, like Gerry Sinclair of NCompass 
> (Resolution), now 
> Microsoft CMS, Joel Bresler of Future Tense (Content Server), 
> later Open 
> Market, divine, and now FatWire, Steve DeRosa of Dynabase, and Philip 
> Greenspun of ArsDigita (ACS), now OpenACS and RedHat CMS.
> 
> I wrote a brief history of the turmoil in the CM marketplace a year 
> ago.  Mergers and acquisitions continue apace, so I need to 
> update it, 
> and with this new timeline we can go back a lot earlier.  You 
> can find 
> it on http://CMSReview.com > Overview.  Or see 
> http://www.cmsreview.com/History.html
> 
> Lennart is absolutely right. We first need to define CMS. Feature by 
> feature is how we hope to do it. 
> http://www.cmsreview.com/Features/Lists.html
> 
> Lennart Regebro wrote:
> 
> >From: <[email protected]>
> >  
> >
> >>Is there a timeline of CMSs?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I don´t think so.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Which one is the oldest (any given language
> >>considered)?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Well, then you first need to define CMS. :-)
> >But the first product I would call a CMS that I encountered would 
> >probably be Lotus Notes, when was that? -92, -93?
> >
> >It's not until the last few years I've seen anything as 
> good, actually. 
> >WAAAAY ahead of it's time, Notes.
> >  
> >
> 
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