The Open Source Document Management Landscape
It is unlikely that the open source document management space will become as populated and as fragmented as the field of open source Web Content Management Solutions. The typical problem solved by document management systems is neither cool nor easy to perceive by the masses of developers.
On the other side though, the users of document management all face similar issues and problems preparing the ground for new developments on a common ground. Document management problems are generally expensive to solve. Vendors of commercial products are known to ask for high license fees and not all of the expected benefits of the solutions result in a measurable value. These unsatisfying economic conditions, on the one hand, and the number of users interested in solutions around document management, on the other, seem good enough reasons for a couple of projects to get some traction. Remaining gaps in the existing open source solution portfolio have established additional ground for commercial open source solutions.
On the following pages these seven solutions are analyzed and described in some detail.
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