Shannon, I've looked at a few open source Electronic Document Management Systems a few years, but nothing was really eye-catching then.
A few questions: 1. How many total users of the system? 2. How many of those users will be using the system at any one time? 3. Do you have a rough estimate of the number of documents you will be putting into the system over say a month? 4. Any idea how large these documents will be on the average? 5. What kind of documents will you be storing? Images? PDFs? 6. How will you be indexing the documents when put them in the system? By hand? Automation? What most organizations want in a document management system is fast document retrieval performance combined with metadata indexing for those documents. Normal filesystems kinda suck when you have hundreds of thousands of documents and a lot of users all trying to access them at the same time, especially if there is revision control. I've managed FileNet (http://www.filenet.com) systems in the past, while not open source, is used by large corps and runs on UNIX, Linux and Windows. It was originally written for UNIX, which can be seen in the file structure and naming conventions, even on a Windows implementation. I am not recommending to you however, as it is $$$. FileNet is fast and scalable because it provides a custom filesystem (32GB "virtual platters", no blocks) with flat file indexing for storing the location and other file info (number of bytes in file, etc.) about the documents. User metadata document searches are handled via an RDBMS, which provides a document ID to the row in the flat file DB. Whatever you do, choose _very_ carefully, as converting from one EDMS to another is painful and slow. Let me know if you have any other questions. John Hebert --- Shannon Roddy <sroddy at gmail.com> wrote: > I can't remember if this has come up before, but > anyone know of a good > open source document management package out there? > Hopefully with the > ability to specify different access controls per > file. Yes, this > would be running on Linux/Apache. ;-) > > While I am at it... any suggestions on web based > calendaring? > > -Shannon > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/
