Does CMS Global fit into an overall plan? What is the connection to skyBuilders.com?
CMS Global is one of three demonstration web sites sponsored by skyBuilders.com. The others are www.openserverpages.com and www.opendatabasemodel.com. These sites share a goal of open-source-code tools for what we call “community computers.” In the “post-PC” world, we see much of our computing activity being done on community computers at our companies and the associations and organizations to which we belong. A file in a notebook or desktop computer is not easily shared. skyBuilders timelines (the unusual lower-case words with medial capitals are a convention from programming variable names) is a suite of tools that lets an organization put files in a shared space we call “theSky,” which we think of as a “virtual platform.” Users have secure web browser access to the community computer web server from anywhere. The current applications in the suite, now at beta version 0.98, are web publishing (content management), tasks management, events scheduling, web-based presentations, interest