Oracle's Move Into Content Management Software? and other CMS stuff

Mark Rittman had this posted a few days ago: Project Tsunami : Oracle's Move Into Content Management Software? It's a big game, and nearly every company (at least at the grass roots techie level) realizes they need a Content Management and filesharing system.

On the Microsoft side, here is a really complete Sharepoint presentation, SharePoint Implementations in the Real World.

When considering such a system, by far the best place to start is with Windows Sharepoint Services. It is free and very well integrated into Server 2003. If Windows 2000 is what you have, Sharepoint Team Services comes free with Frontpage 2000 and up. Both receive rave reviews, and they require no training and no technical knowledge to use. It's as intuitive as you can get.

And before looking at a larger solution (costing 6 figures, all of them will), be sure to consider the open source alternatives. For a very long time Zope was considered the most advanced and extensible CMS available anywhere, and also look at php-Nuke, TikiWiki, etc, etc, etc. There's a list on the left column here. Because these existed in the open source community long before the big vendors caught on, and Free is not a dirty word.