This one time, at band camp, Howard Lowndes wrote:

> I need to set up a doc mgmt sys on a secure web site for a small NFP
> org.

There's document management and then there's document management.  The 
filesystem can be considered a document management system, albeit a very 
limited one.

> The provision of the secure site is no problem and is already available
> under Linux/Apache, but I need guidance on the best DMS to use.

Depends what you want.

> The type of docs that will be being stored and need to be accessed are:
> 
> Minutes
> Policy docs
> Gen info
> 
> Most currently exists in electronic format in Word of varying versions
> but conversion to txt or html will not be too big a prob.
> 
> The docs need to be indexable and searchable.

It kinds of depends what you're actually attempting and what you mean by 
document management.  If all you want is indexing and searching, that 
should be relatively easy.  If you want all the frills and add-ons that 
most people mean by a DMS, it gets more complicated.

I've investigated this a lot for my work, and ended up deciding all the 
systems are all either under- or over-powered for what we need.  Nothing 
in between.

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