On 14 Nov 2003, at 18:41, Remy Maucherat wrote:
\bad marketing-------------
I believe Slide has currently a major bug in its own self-marketing: no matter how you look at it, Slide is *NOT* a content management system. Probably Remy (or Yassaf/Keith/Ismael don't know who came up with this)
It's Assaf, not Yassaf.
D'oh! you're totally right. My bad.
didn't know what a content management system was, but one thing is for sure: Slide is a content repository not a content management system.
A CMS includes things like content authoring, content auditing, workflow management, presentation logic, *and* content repositories. The repository is only a (critical! important! vital!) piece of the CMS puzzle, but it's foolish to consider a content repository enough to implement a serious CMS.
I think it's vital, for the success of a project, not to fool around with its own marketing.
I would like to invite this community to discuss the "remarketing" of slide and propose "retargetting" of the project.
[note: this will also make it easier to market Slide as the reference implementation of the JSR-170 in the future. FYI: I am the ASF representative for JSR-170 in the expert group]
The original plan was to have many CMS features, such as workflow and a complete web interface on top of that, but there weren't enough resources (M$ did that and called it Sharepoint). That's the reason for the "marketting".
I see. Thanks for sharing the history bits.
-- Stefano.
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