the last days there was a lot going on in AppIdeas_.  A lot of ideas
are about full fledged application while others consist of building
blocks for such application.  There is an agreement that
WebwareUserManager_ is one of the most important building blocks.
Then there are a huge number of ideas that can be described as some
sort of Content/Document/Knowledge Management System. It might be
helpfull to define these ideas more rigorous as all of these terms are
used as "buzzwords" by a lot of marketing strategies.

I see these Applications (or modules) in a hierachical order:

Content Management:
* management of any data
* import/export of data
* authentication mechanism
* version control
* categorising data

Document Management:
* is a Content Management system
* the content consists of human readable files/documents
* has filter for import/export/view
* has workflow rules included
* has adapter for third party tools (for example text processing tools)
* has integrated search engine

Knowledge Management:
* is a Document Management System
* allows links
* includes something like RDF, Topic Maps,...
* includes expert system (?)

Of the proposed Apps, I'd see the following classification:

* Content Management:
* Document Management: WebwareDocumentManagementSystem_, WebwareForum_, WebwareMail_,		  WebwareSlash_
* Knowledge Management: WebwareVault_, WebwareWiki_, WebwareSourceforge_

-- Stephan.Diehl - 22 Nov 2001 <br/>