Publishing On Internet Patented

nchip writes: "Emedicene has been granted patent for "Group Publising System," announced on Infotoday. Quotes from the article: 'The software is unique -- it is the only enterprise software that allows all production to take place on the Internet.' ... '"Our system is a complete authoring, editing, and version-control system with complete management-tracking tools and a built-in communications network."' That Sounds a lot like Zope or wikiwikiweb." Or to pick something even more (ahem) prior, say CVS!

Comments

CVS?

[mholve]

When did CVS allow authoring and editing? Sure, it does version control... But it's a far cry from what they're talking about.

What they're talking about sounds a lot like content management which is certainly NOT new - and is also not what Zope does.

Just another dumb patent.

Re:CVS?

[_Swank]

Totally agree. Before everyone on Slashdot goes crazy about how there is all this prior art from CVS, Zope, and wiki, read the actual press release.

What eMedicine has here is a full content management system. This is not version control. Most importantly every product mentioned as prior art in the /. posting is missing one thing: workflow processes. The ability to automatically enforce some asset be edited by this person, approved by 2 of these 3 people, then moved to staging, approved after UA testing, and moved to production seems to be a key part of what eMedicine has.

This has certainly been done before though not by any of the products mentioned above. Interwoven's Teamsite and Vignette's V/5 Content Management Server are 2 examples of products (and there are a number of others) that seem to do everything mentioned in the press release.

But true content management and workflow support are things that neither CVS, Zope, or wiki have. Slow down Slashdot.