One of the most challenging tasks of any technology professional is keeping track of the plethora of solutions available. Thankfully, there are guys like Seth Gottlieb who actually get paid to try out all the software solutions, analyze them and write about their findings.

I’ve gotten to know Seth through the Boston Plone Users Group, and we were recently both speaking at the Plone Symposium in New Orleans. The company where he works Optaros, has been kind enough to offer their office space to hold the monthly user group meetings. They also host the PHP and MySQL user group meetings.

Seth has written two excellent whitepapers which I have downloaded, printed and consumed as soon as they were published.

• Unleashing the Power of Open Source in Document Management

Content Management Problems and Open Source Solutions

What I found interesting is that Plone was one of the only systems which appeared in both whitepapers, meaning it’s capable of being used for both managing content on a public facing website, as well as an intranet solution for managing documents.

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