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

Seth Gottlieb wrote:
> Thanks Eric,
> 
> This is very helpful.  I have been examining DSpace for a client that is 
> looking for an open source collaborative workspace solution.  Their 
> requirements are based on some of the principals having used IntraSpect 
> (which was acquired by Vignette) in prior lives.  ERoom (now owned by 
> Documentum owned by EMC) is another possibility.  The metadata focus of 
> DSpace might be a little heavy for them.  The Zope based projects (Plone 
> and Silva) seem very appropriate but they have a Java bias.  Thoughts?

There certainly doesn't seem to be a shortage of java-based open source 
CMSes, as I'm sure others will point out on this list ;). I'm not sure 
that trying to sell you Silva is entirely approriate on-list, (I'm a 
developer not a sales person, so I doubt whether I'm the right person to 
do it anyway.) but I'll be quite happy to answer any questions. For a 
feature by feature comparison of the different CMSes, the OSCOM matrix 
is a pretty nice tool, although the information may not always be 
entirely up to date (I know Silva sometimes lags a little, because 
updating the matrix is one of those todo items that gets pushed back 
very easily.)

eric