CMS advice

[pmeswani]

That's at least reasonable. Alfresco it is.

SugarCRM is out of the question?

[blacjac]

could give these lot a try
http://www.eclipselegal.co.uk/

not going to be free/cheap though

I once went for a job interview there in my permie days, based in Bradford.

[lilelvis2000]

I'll have a look into those.

I like Alfresco because it has a shared drive for documents...I'm assuming that when a document is updated a version of the old is kept. I has tasks, and search via web browser. Can't recall if a user can drop a file into the browser or not.

Don't know if all the capabilities are in the OpenSource version. its not clear from the website.

[Fred Bloggs]

Is it a CMS or a DMS that's needed? I'm not sure a CMS (as I understand it) does what you want. I've used PHPNUKE and a PHPNUKE port called RavenNuke.

[lilelvis2000]

There seems be a blurred line between the two. But I'm definitly only looking at the documents part. Which would be a lower level I think than a web CMS.

[Fred Bloggs]

There seems be a blurred line between the two. But I'm definitly only looking at the documents part. Which would be a lower level I think than a web CMS.

OK, then I'm sure that PHPNUKE, Joomla etc.. as I understand them are not what you want. They AFAUI are website content managers first and foremost with Galleries, shopping carts and Forums as bolt ons.

[DimPrawn]

FFS, buy Windows OS for a few hundred quid and get it all FREE with Sharepoint Services baked in.

[darmstadt]

Quite interesting this as the only CMS I know is Conversational Monitor System which is basically the front-end to VM but also has something called CMS Windows. Then there was a mention of DMS which once again runs under VM and was basically another part of CMS (DMSCMS) and was Display Management System/Conversional Monitor System, all of which predate the topic here by many years. Even VM which was 'purloined' by Sun/MS is in fact an operating system. I hate TLAs as there are now so many of them and all have a different meaning

[TykeMerc]

To me a CMS is a Content Management System like Documentum.

TLA's do cause loads of confusion.

[bogeyman]

Quite interesting this as the only CMS I know is Conversational Monitor System which is basically the front-end to VM but also has something called CMS Windows. Then there was a mention of DMS which once again runs under VM and was basically another part of CMS (DMSCMS) and was Display Management System/Conversional Monitor System, all of which predate the topic here by many years. Even VM which was 'purloined' by Sun/MS is in fact an operating system. I hate TLAs as there are now so many of them and all have a different meaning

Oh the glory days of CMS!

Hated it myself - more of a MVS TSO man.

IBM described VM as a 'Hypervisor' rather than an Operating System - a way of virtualising and sharing system resources. The things you ran under VM were OSs like DOS/VSE, MVS and of course CMS.

Then we got to the stage of mainframe hardware virtualisation (LPARs) and runnng MVS under VM in an LPAR - madness