[thelist] CMS and other acronyms

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Sun Oct 5 17:04:16 CDT 2008


On 5 Oct 2008, at 21:05, Christie Mason wrote:

> Regardless, a "Content Management System" is not something that
> was invented for the Web. Yes, hard to believe, but there was actually
> content to be managed and published before HTML, and it wasn't all
> on stone tablets.

Yep - Newspaper workflow systems for a start.

And don't get me started on documentation for pharma companies -  
they've got *huge* amounts of content, which needs *auditably* moving  
around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_content_management

The big beast of this environment goes back to 1993 or so:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentum

Cheers
Martin

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