Could Eclipse be your ECM client?

Added By Tony Byrne at 16-Mar-2006 | Twitter: @TonyByrne |

I've seen various applications built off the noted open-source Eclipse IDE, and occasionally someone muses that perhaps that this developer environment could make a nice common contribution platform for real content authors as well. Now open-source developers at Nuxeo have proposed "Apogee," an ECM client based on Eclipse. In the past, I have argued for this sort of collaboration on common services, but I'm skeptical about the need for thick clients. Moreover, using Eclipse could just perpetuate the common myth that content managers simply need dumbed-down developer interfaces. More interesting is Nuxeo's latest version of its ECM platform, called CPS, which is built off Zope. Read about it on Slashdot. Unlike Plone, Nuxeo tries to incorporate traditional ECM services like records management. As a 30-person company, Nuxeo ranks as one of the larger open-source project sponsors in this space, although its platform is perhaps not commensurately well-known. Based in France, Nuxeo has struggled a bit to get serious adoption outside francophonie.

Categories: Tony Byrne, Enterprise Content Management, Open Source, Plone