the last days there was a lot going on in AppIdeas. A lot of ideas are about full fledged application while others consist of building blocks for such application. There is an agreement that WebwareUserManager is one of the most important building blocks. Then there are a huge number of ideas that can be described as some sort of Content/Document/Knowledge Management System. It might be helpfull to define these ideas more rigorous as all of these terms are used as "buzzwords" by a lot of marketing strategies.
I see these Applications (or modules) in a hierachical order:
Content Management: * management of any data * import/export of data * authentication mechanism * version control * categorising data
Document Management: * is a Content Management system * the content consists of human readable files/documents * has filter for import/export/view * has workflow rules included * has adapter for third party tools (for example text processing tools) * has integrated search engine
Knowledge Management: * is a Document Management System * allows links * includes something like RDF, Topic Maps,... * includes expert system (?)
Of the proposed Apps, I'd see the following classification:
Content Management:
Document Management: WebwareDocumentManagementSystem, WebwareForum, WebwareMail, WebwareSlash
Knowledge Management: WebwareVault, WebwareWiki, WebwareSourceforge
-- Stephan.Diehl - 22 Nov 2001 <br/>