[Zope] Macromedia SiteSpring

[Thomas B. Passin]

 <sean.upton@uniontrib.com>

> Frankly, I don't see how a light-weight workflow system like that is
really
> all that Zope-like.  It provides, AFAIK, no development environment, no
> object-database, no access to heterogeneous external data, no
> content-repository.  It provides a "file-server-based approach," which of
> course means all this product does is workflow and file versioning!
>
...
> Any .com production departments for companies big enough to need something
> like SiteSpring would be better off using a CMS with a content repository,
> or use a source-code versioning system instead of a static-file based
> production management system.
>

Actually, I saw that they have an extensive versioning system that
supposedly operates transparently to the users, and automatically covers any
document going into the system of whatever type.  They tout that as one of
the strengths of their system.

Cheers,

Tom P