[australia] Why home grown CMS?

[James Ladd]

All,

Hello. I'm new to the group and I'm a developer with an IBS
(www.ibsglobalweb.com)
and we are an Agile XP shop.  The opinions I express are mine and not
those of 
IBS.

I have an interest in CMS and hence I'm here.

This is my first rant so please be kind.

from the digest ...
>I think this largely comes back to the fact that organisations do not
>value their information or the means of disseminating that
>information.

Information is like gold and it's buried under dirt, that's why
organisation don't see the
value in their information. If we provide tools for unearthing the gold
information then
a gold rush will follow.

Their are rich veins of information that flow beneath the surface of all
organisations
but most of the CM's I have seen don't do more than make a pretty
display of some
very simple information and leave a lot to be desired in terms of
showing the 
relationships between different information. It's these relationships
that "mean" value in
the minds of the users.

If you found real gold then you associate that with money, the
association is what makes the find
valuable. 

A CM tool that "digs" for information from many feeds and then shows
this information
via their relationship would provide a means for the user to "pan" for
more information
and make use of it more readily. 

A CM tool that doesn't do this in some way appears to me to be little
more than a 
fancy way to post web pages. Of course there is a place for this too,
but it's not going to cause the 
gold rush some want to happen.

I'm still looking for the gold.

Rgs, James.
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