Nik,
You should also watch for the latest and greatest misnomer: Knowledge
Management Systems. "CMS" seems to be more and more uncool in marketese.
You have to at least add the "enterprise" at the begining if you want sales
people to take it seriously. But many are switching to Knowledge Management
now even though at the core they are doc managers, task managers, or CMSs.
I would also mention Zope as 2 products: the CMS and CMF - A distinction
most clients (and many developers) don't understand but unfortunately has
huge ramifications on production and budgets. IOW, many "CMSs" are just app
servers. Others provide interfaces/code base/templates needed to publish a
site tomorrow. Then again, those that do often limit what can be done.
Many grays.
Unfortunately, all this is very convoluted and confusing for clients. I
still don't know how to properly educate them. So many details I'm not even
sure your breakdown will make things clearer... but it is a good start. :)
a.
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Behalf Of Nik Martin
CMS is overused and abused in general. I already have a broad
categorization of the different CMS software systems that I use:
Website Management System. ala Ektron or Edit My Site Online
Portal/Community System -PHPNuke PostNuke
Web Logs Moveable Type, Radio Land PostNuke
Publishing Systems - Textpattern, BabelText
Web Based Document Management Systems ???
Information Management Systems ???
E-Commerce Systems ??
Application Server - Zope (it also fits into many other categories here)
I'd like to start a page that degeneralizes CMS systems into an accepted
list of sub-categories that would help persons looking for a CMS decide.
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http://cms-list.org/
more signal, less noise.
