commercial Wyona-similar systems

I discuss a  commercial product here which is aimed at the same sort of 
problems as Wyona. If this sort of thing offends you stop reading now.



Not quite on topic but today at the London Linux Expo I saw a demo of Q:UBA 
content "manipulation" system based on top of X-Hive (XML database).
It was quite interesting to compare its interface with Wyona's. The 
functionality (I think) overlaps a lot.

We mostly saw the workflow system so that (for instance) we say there is a 
new document to be authored, an author creates it, an editor approves or 
rejects it, a reviewer fixes the problems, an editor approves it, it 
appears on sight with XML to HTML etc performed by XSLT.

One of the reasons why I was interested was that they use MS Word as their 
XML editing package. They have a plugin which takes the word document (in 
their format of course) and transfers it to and from the content management 
system, presumably using web services as the transport mechanism.

I'm not saying that we should steer away from XOpus, but using Word may be 
a lot more acceptible to many secretaries and journalists....
It also helps with editing documents offline - and only going online when 
the update needs to be done.


I have no connection with any of the companies mentioned.

Alex




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