[Zope-PTK] Content Management Articles

[Spicklemire, Jerry]

Albert Boulanger observed:

> I really have a biased reaction about workflow focused on CMS of
> webpages like in these articles. I think workflow should be more
> general -- as general as work is. Zope would make its mark if it
> offered or integrated with a WMF -- Workflow Management System (such
> as Staffware's) that then can be applied to workflow of content for
> CMS.

I'm not familiar with Staffware, or any other dedicated workflow 
systems. I did check out their Web Site though and found that 
their product isn't available for Linux, and only works with two 
costly RDBM systems. Prices were nowhere in sight, which always 
makes me skittish.

I certainly agree that Zope can make a mark in general workflow, 
and is not limited in any way to Web CM.

The great thing about doing CM with Zope is the opportunity that 
the platform presents as the toolkit for building the application 
for managing itself! Once we have this much in place it will be 
irrefutably obvious that any number of other business processes 
can be automated exactly the same way. Folks who would balk at the 
prospect of a "massive" process reengineering effort will have a 
prototype system staring at them, ready to go. 

And they thought all this Web Stuff was just so much WWW . Fluff!

Later,
Jerry S.