I'd put forth that content management consists not only of those three elements as MS, but also the integration of a "pecking order" of people in control of publishing rights and strict rules enforcing what is and is not published based on the input of all necessary parties.
Other than that, as long as you take that function and wrap it in the definition of "Publishing" that MS attributes in their definition, it sounds about right. - Jim Chunshen (Don) Li wrote: >I hope this is not OT. I'd like to get a better understanding of the definition of >CMS. According to Microsoft, it seems that the core functions of CMS should over >Content Creation, Publishing and Storage. Is there a general agreement on this? Or >am I missing something big here? >Secondly, personally I think the publishing part is a very tough task considering the >fact that most design seem to change a lot over some time span for Intranet, Extranet >or Internet, so, the integration of publishing and (future) design would be a huge >challenge. > >Li, Chunshen (Don) >http://68.32.61.40/datadata/dataman.cfm > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4

