On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> > - is anything like the mentioned things already existent? (mainly: database
> > based content management system, and something of a sophisticated user
> > management) (We would probably even pay for it if that matters)
>
> There are lots, but the only ones I know of that actually have the
> features most people mean when they say "content management
> system" (i.e. revision control, scheduling, ability to create new things
> without modifying a database schema) are MediaSurface and Allaire
> Spectra. Both are commercial and closed-source, although fairly
> flexible. The former uses a mix of java and perl, the latter uses Allaire
> ColdFusion markup.
Just to correct things here, Mediasurface is only Java in the client
editing front end bit, which should be good (better than a HTML UI, and
cross platform too) but it turns out that it bites big time. One of the
lead developers told me he thought he'd have been better doing it in
Perl/Tk, as it has better run-time interactive performance.
--
<Matt/>
Fastnet Software Ltd. High Performance Web Specialists
Providing mod_perl, XML, Sybase and Oracle solutions
Email for training and consultancy availability.
http://sergeant.org | AxKit: http://axkit.org
