Web Content Management System History
Web Content Management Systems began to be formally developed as a commercial software products in the mid nineties. In the mid 2000s, the web content management market became a fragmented market as a plethora of new providers emerged to complement the traditional vendors. These Web Content Management systems are typically broken down into several groups:
phpBB3
phpBB3 is the current stable version of phpBB. Following over three years of development and an eighteen-month beta/release candidate stage, it went gold on December 13, 2007.
Some of phpBB3′s major features include:
- Modular design for the Admin Control Panel, Moderator Control Panel, and User Control Panel
- Support for multiple database management systems, including MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird, OpenLink Virtuoso, and other ODBC-accessible DBMS
- Support for unlimited levels of subforums
- Ability to create custom-defined BBCode
- Ability to create custom profile fields
- Permissions system
phpBB3 also provides administrators with much more control over every aspect of the forum software, such as how it is displayed to management of user and group permissions. Consequently, this increased functionality makes the administrative interface much more complex, and new users have found it somewhat more intimidating than phpBB2.
dotCMS
Filed under: CMS Index, Open Source Web CMS, dotCMS
dotCMS is a free software / open source web content management system (wCMS) for building/managing websites, content and content driven web applications. dotCMS includes enterprise CMS features such as support for virtual hosting, WebDav (beta) ,structured content, clustering and can run on multiple databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL and Oracle, and is available as software that can be installed on a web server or via a hosting provider (dotMarketing is now offering the onDemand virtual hosting service for clients, and has also registered an image available via the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud). It also includes standard wCMS features features like page caching, advanced templating techniques, and a robust API. There are a number of features and modules in dotCMS, including RSS feeds, AJAX driven calendar, a built in reporting engine, news listing, blogs, forums, user tracking and tagging, built in search engine and language internationalization to name a few.
Sharing data to become easier
Swapping information across content management repositories may become easier in the years to come, thanks to a newly released set of specifications authored by a legion of content management system vendors, including IBM, Microsoft, Alfresco, Open Text, Oracle, SAP and EMC.
The specification, called Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS), establishes how content management systems (CMSs) can use a set of Web services interfaces, as well as the REST and Atom protocols to link with other repositories. The vendors announced that it plans to submit the specs to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), the standards body that oversees many Web services standards today.