Do you believe that you have a pretty good handle on the future of CMS and other forms of information distribution? Perhaps you ought to compare notes with the thoughts below…

I did a presentation at IT Forum, at Barcelona, on the future of CMS and SPS shortly after the release of CMS SP2. I wanted to spend some time writing about the next version as well as highlighting great CMS resources for CMS developers and IT administrators.

The Future
Based on feedback from you, partners and analysts, we are building CMS functionality on top of Wndows SharePoint Services (WSS) “v3″. CMS and SPS, along with a lot of other great functionality, will be one integrated set of technologies built on top of WSS “v3″. The Office Server investments built on top of WSS “v3″ are codenamed Office “12″ SharePoint Servers. The broad investment areas include ECM, Search, Portal, Collab, BI and Forms. We’re careful not to say SPS “12″ or CMS 2007, because packaging and licensing decisions have not been made. While these technologies will be technically integrated (same development, deployment and end-user experience), we have not made decisions on how these will be packaged. As a current customer, rest assured that you will get what you have today.

I’d like to expand on what this specifically means for CMS 2002 customers. (Keep in mind, this is a subset of the ECM investments we are making in Office “12″ SharePoint Servers.) You will no longer have to deploy two different WSS and CMS solutions; CMS functionality will be built on top of WSS allowing you to deploy a single WCM and Collaborative solution. Also, you gain a lot of other benefits b/c it’s built on WSS: Web Parts, Lists, Document Libraries, Templates, Workflow :-), RSS, et cetera. [Read the rest]