At 04:45 29/11/2002, Hari M wrote:
I was wondering if posters have a road map on where they think CMS is going. What features will be added, will it be more open, standardized protocols?
Hi Hari, This is obviously a difficult question, one that keeps people like Gartner nice and rich. ;-) My quick thoughts: * Content Management Systems will become a "commodity" over next couple of years, leading to falling prices and standardised features. * Many of the current CMSs will go out of business in the process. * Many of the current projects will fail, due to the current poor standard of implementation, and lack of understanding of usability, information architecture, knowledge management and content issues. * The field of "content management" will continue to mature over the next few years, to (hopefully) achieve a higher level of consistency, repeatability and professionalism. * The move to open (or industry) standars for CMSs is obviously desirable, but there seems few immediate moves towards this. I would guess that this will take at least 5 years to occur. * Sooner or later, there will have to be a merging and rationalisation between content management, document management and records management. This is just my $0.02, James ------------------------- James Robertson Step Two Designs Pty Ltd Knowledge Management Consultancy, SGML & XML Content Management Requirements Toolkit 112 CMS requirements, ready to cut-and-paste http://www.steptwo.com.au/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
