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[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 20:26, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 21:21, Wil Cooley wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 06:20, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > > It will take longer to public to fedora.redhat.com -- we'll need
> > > a proper CMS to do that for reasons involving infrastructure
> > > (pushing web site content is currently too heavyweight a process
> > > for that to work).  It's still a good idea, though.  :-)
> > 
> > So are you saying that http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/cms/ isn't a
> > "proper CMS"? :)
> > 
> 
> reasons why it doesn't seem like a real cms to me:
> 1. source code is included - but under what license?

The CCMPL.
http://www.redhat.com/licenses/ccmpl.html

While interesting, this does not appear to be an OSI Certified open
source license (check the list at
http://opensource.org/licenses/index.php ). 
You learn something new every day. ;)

> 2. it's in java
> 3. it's in java

Would you rather C#? Wait, don't answer that. 

> 4. The Red Hat CMS approach can have a company running a content
> management system in as little as two months. - umm - 2months?

Compared to the time effort required to deploy a traditional proprietary
CMS, 2 months isn't bad.

~spot
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Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat*com> LCA, RHCE 
Red Hat Sales Engineer || Aurora SPARC Linux Project Leader

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