Suggestions for opening questions (show of hands)
- How many know what a CMS is?
- Distinguish Web Content Management from Document Management, Knowledge Management, Assets Management, Rights Management, Business Process Management, Customer Relations Management, etc.
- Type of solution (Buy or Build?)
- How many prefer OUT OF THE BOX solutions where you just customize the interfaces and data structures for the client
- How many prefer EXTENSIBLE TOOLS where you can program supporting functionality (e.g., PHP, ZOPE, Cold Fusion, .NET)?
- How many prefer INTEGRATED systems that also offer Community, Commerce, and Collaboration tools?
- Cost of solutions you would like to hear about
- over $250K (Vignette, Documentum, divine, Interwoven)
- over $50K (Stellent/Inso)
- over $10K (Microsoft CM Server)
- under $10K (AtomZ)
- Open Source, GPL, free to non-profits
- Location of solution
- How many want to explore ASP-hosted solutions?
- How many want tools your client can run at their current hosting center?
- How many want tools your client can run on their own in-house intranet/Internet web server?
- Operating system preference?
- Windows
- Mac
- Unix (Sun)
- GNU/Linux
- Programming language/development environment?
- Windows (VB, ASP, .NET, etc.)
- Java (including JSP)
- PHP
- Cold Fusion
- Zope (Python, Perl)
- Perl
