Red Hat gets into the content management business

[Posted April 7, 2003 by corbet]

Red Hat has sent out a press release announcing its new "Enterprise Applications" series of products, starting with content management system and portal server offerings. The PR is light on detail (the web pages linked above have a bit more). The CMS system does the usual workflow and content management jobs; the Portal server adds upper-level serving features, along with discussions, calendars, etc. It's all said to be open source, but there's very little information on which free packages it was built on (there is mention of PostgreSQL, Tomcat, and Jakarta).

Red Hat gets into the content management business

Posted Apr 7, 2003 14:38 UTC (Mon) by humberto (subscriber, #70) [Link] (1 responses)

As near as I can tell, CMS 5.0 is a j2ee version of the ArsDigita Community System which redhat has been developing for several years.

See ACS and OpenACS for tcl/oracle/postgress versions of the system.

Red Hat gets into the content management business

Posted Apr 15, 2003 18:58 UTC (Tue) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link]

That's right. Red Hat bought Ars Digita in Feb 2002 and along with it came ACS version 5 (written in Java, earlier versions written in Tcl). They renamed it to CCM and have now renamed it to something else.

It's huge, bloated, over-engineered, difficult to use, slow and hard to understand; a typical example of the second system syndrome, and what you get when you allow MIT grads to go "off on one" for more than a year with no particular direction.

Rich (former CCM developer)