Should Open Source Content Management Interoperate?

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Should Open Source Content Management Interoperate?

Posted by michael on Friday September 20, 2002 @05:45AM from the play-nicely dept.

bergie writes "Advogato is running a thought-provoking article on whether open source content management systems should interoperate. This is a big question involving social issues inside the projects, but also promising huge benefits to developers deploying open source CMSs and to desktop projects like Mozilla, OpenOffice and Xopus wishing to connect with a collaborative backend. This discussion will also be a major topic on the upcoming OSCOM conference."

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Michael Sims by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-20 05:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Can eat my ass.

That is all.

HTH. HAND.
h4w by Anonymous Coward · 2002-09-20 05:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Interoperation would be...hard by MisterBlister · 2002-09-20 05:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The underlying check-in/check-out mechanism of different open source SCC systems can be (and often are..*cough* cvs *cough*) wildly different. Any attempt at an 'open' standard runs the risk of being extremely complex (to cover all these SCC types) or extremely watered down (least common denominator).
Its possible, I think, to agree on a workable standard, but it would be a LOT of hard work!
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