CMS advice?

[daveatfiserv]

Does anybody have any recommendations on an open-source CMS with good versioning functions to use with oXygen?

Thanks for any help,
-Dave Gibbons
Fiserv

[adrian]

Hello,

Alfresco Community Edition is an open source Enterprise Content Management system:
http://www.alfresco.com/products/networks/community/
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Main_Page

Regards,
Adrian

[daveatfiserv]

We've looked at Alfresco a little, but (apparently) had problems getting it to work well with oXygen, particularly handling output. The Alfresco forums only mention oXygen five times in the past five years, so I'm concerned that there may not be much community support for that solution.

What other open-source CMSes, if any, are people using successfully?

-Dave

[bpopp]

Take a look at existdb. It has a lot of really nice XML-related features(xquery, xforms, xproc, tranlation, rest interface, etc.) and has a webdav interface that should work w/ Oxygen.

The problem you'll find, I think, is that it doesn't handle versioning very eloquently. It is turned off, by default, and seems to have been implemented as an after-thought. It creates a separate folder for each file and stuffs each "save" into that folder. You can't, as best I could tell, label the commits so you just get a bunch of folders w/ incrementally named files.

Another direction you could look at would be to use subversion or git to handle versioning. This works very well for version control, but it doesn't give you file locking so writers have to be careful about stepping on each others toes.

My company uses Documentum and it seems to work well w/ Oxygen, but it's not cheap to run in production. You can, however, download a Developer version from their website for free.