Re: [tlug] Content management system

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Engel <mkengel@example.com> writes:

    Michael> We would like to work a little bit more professionally
    Michael> and are looking for an OpenSource management system which
    Michael> allows several users to work together - even on the same
    Michael> document.

This looks very similar to a translation manager, though probably not
quite the same.

Ubuntu's Rosetta (but I don't think that's open source yet).

The archives of debian-i18n will show several possibilities.  Since
Rosetta is not open source, searching for Rosetta in debian-i18n
should give you a fair sampling of free-software-fanaticism along with
some more or less useful suggestions.  (nb: asking for help on
debian-i18n would be way off-topic.)

Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com> is very expert on this
kind of thing.

    Michael> Could you please recommend us products which are if
    Michael> possible multi-OS (Linux, Windows + eventually Macintosh)
    Michael> ?

Don't go there.  You want a product that speaks XHTML and WebDAV.
Then any browser can access it (except that IE will regularly go south
on you as Microsoft tries to make it incompatible with standards every
so often).

Products that work on Linux will work on Macintosh, but you really
don't want to run an Xserve from all I hear.  You definitely don't
want any Windows servers running; you'll have hackers poking you in
the eye 24x7, and proprietary vendors pulling on your shorthairs every
month or so.

Your best bet is to run the database and content management framework
(CMF) on a free *nix server.  Typically the database will be something
like Oracle, PostgreSQL, or MySQL, but you might prefer something more
exotic like the database built into Zope.  The CMF could be Plone
(built on Zope), or something more specialized built on Zope itself or
from Ruby-on-Rails technology (TLUG-to-Zev, this is your cue!).  Of
course you'll almost certainly want to serve all this to the web via
Apache.  All of this is open source (except Oracle) and all of it runs
great on Linux.

Since you want concurrent access, you may want a revision control
system such as Subversion or git in the background.  However, if
you've got a database like PostgreSQL in place, that will give you all
the ACID you need.


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