Not much detail but others are thinking along these lines. http://acquia.com/blog/drupal-cloud
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Nils Breunese <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I work at a company that is currently in the process of evaluating > different content management systems with a focus on web publishing and > community features. We are currently using a CMS that was developed in-house > (started in 1996 when there weren't too many CMS products around) and later > open sourced. However, we feel we have reached the limits of our current > architecture and we're currently looking at more modern and flexible ways to > work with our content and the web. > > We have had CMS products like Magnolia, Hippo, dotCMS and Roxen demoed to > us, which are all based on either Java Content Repositories (JCR), XML > and/or relational databases and I started thinking: wouldn't a > document-oriented database like CouchDB make an ideal platform for a CMS? > > Features we're looking for include: > > - Document type specification and corresponding editors which can be > created automatically/easily > - Workflow management > - User roles > - Templating > - Content versioning > - Publication rules (e.g. 'visible after date 1, but only until date 2') > - Community features like tagging and commenting > - Moderation > - LDAP integration > - Scalability > - Full text search > - REST API > - Easy creation and use of reusable components (polls, lists of popular > items, etc.) built using technologies understood by by frontend developers > (I'm thinking HTML/JavaScript etc.) > - Easy arrangement of widgets, drag and drop layout interface? > > I understand that a mature product with all these features built on CouchDB > does not exist today and probably will take a while to build. I'd like to > just throw the idea of a CMS on CouchDB out on this mailinglist and hear > from people that are interested. I'm not sure my company is willing to build > another CMS (I guess not, but I'm 'just a developer'), but maybe we could > participate somehow in a project to build a CMS that might some day fulfill > all of our needs. > > Any thoughts? > > Nils. > -- http://ls.net http://drupal.ls.net The path to God starts with a simple act of kindness.
