Re: [OSCOM] Open source CMS / documents are content/

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Content-wire Research wrote:

> what about browser based? With SOA to become dominant environment in the 
> future, can the home based/remote user expect a tool that support file 
> handling via browser/IP?  Is this a common feature in typical DMS, in 
> you experience? I know there are some tools that support it, by I dont 
> think it has been the norm historically

My impression is that most older documement management systems were built 
as client-server apps, but recently have been migrating to browser based 
interfaces.


> re: mass import In my experience 'import' functions are not limited by 
> size, ie the volume of files is irrelevant to the system design (other 
> than hardware and cache size perhaps) the function is simply 'select 
> file to be imported' and 'import files' - two clicks - please correct me 
> where I am wrong

If you have a library of 10,000 documents (for example) the feature needs 
to be 'recursively import these directories'.  I haven't seen that in open 
source CMSs, but maybe I'm not looking at the right ones.


> I think the benefits of your suggested functional CMS extension could 
> outweigh the cost of buidling a straight DMS, although the amount of 
> thinking around it would have to be marginally more intensive, allowing 
> of course for some situations when the option is not desired/preferred 
> for whatever reason

As CMS architects it benefits us to think along these lines because we 
want flexible systems that can address the needs of a diverse user base. 
However, any system that we built would need to compete against a large 
number of already existing, mostly commercial, fairly mature document 
management systems.  I would think the main audience for an open source 
DMS would be organizations that have not adopted commercial systems 
because they have tight budgets and can't afford the licensing costs -- 
libraries, service oriented small businesses, and so on.

Oliver