On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 12:32:51AM -0400, Sherm Pendley wrote: > Just to pick nits - only the local Boston-area WGBH site at www.wgbh.org > is managed by ArsDigita. The content that's created by WGBH's > Interactive department for PBS, and posted to pbs.org and pbskids.org is > managed by a diverse collection of ad hoc systems, using an assortment > of tools including MySQL, FileMaker Pro, Word, Excel, and (of course!) > both Perl and MacPerl.
Thanks, for the clarification. The point I was trying to make, and it is somewhat embarrassing that I got through the list and forgot to make it, is that the difference corporations all had different needs and they decided on systems that have nearly no common features, (Except for some peripheral items like templates) and no common general concepts (except a 10,000 ft view of "data comes in, data sits, data goes out") When Boston.com was researching content management vendors, there were a few of them that considered the ability to injest MS-Word and Excel documents, and the ability to connect to ODBC resources important feature of a CMS, saying you can't really manage content if you need to convert it before importing it into the system (which then leads to two copies, the one on the authors disk, which they go back to for edits, and the one in the system, which is used by everyone but the author.) For others, all data input is through HTML forms. Now that I've been playing around with zope a bit, I find the WebDAV and external editor support a neat compromise between the two. But this is just showing that once you dip below they 10,000 feet, even the "data in" step of the three step process above is remarkably different. It was probably the Boston.com requirements process that gave me the tendency to respond to any content management question with "what does the term content management mean to you, and what do you want it to do for you?" -- I know a grown up word, its "Magnetitious". It means when a magnet can stick on something.. -- Samantha Langmead, age 5. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
