Yesterday, a colleague spoke of an initiative at his wife's company to put some automated workflow processes in place. The company had already talked to a consultant who proposed using Zope to meet their needs. This led me into an investigation of Zope, and many other open source content management systems:
- Plone - provides substantial access control and workflow features. Layered on the Zope web application server using Zope CMF (content management framework). One-step installation using a conventional installer.
- TikiWiki - a wiki on steroids. It claims to have pretty well every collaboration feature I can think of, including workflow support. Requires a web server, PHP, and MySQL.
- Magnolia - a Java-based (JSR-170) system. Fairly light in the feature department. Ease-of-use is its main claim.
- OpenCms - Needs Java 1.4, Tomcat 4, and MySQL. Page editing uses ActiveX controls in IE (with a fallback to a simple type-in box for non-IE browsers).
- Typo3 - Needs PHP4 and MySQL.
CMS Watch is a good site for monitoring CMS developments. cms matrix is another.
