I went to half of Tony Byrne's (cmswatch.com) tutorial on WCMS: Architectures and Products, and what struck me was the level of complexity that many of these systems seem to seek.
While I acknowledge that there definately are some organizations that needs huge amount of control, structure, workflow, big-brother-is-watching-even-more like features, I find it incredible that these systems really gives so much focus on this.
The approach in umbraco is much more "Write, Preview, Publish". That's our focus and this is why these things are in focus in our product. Sure we have audit trails, notification systems, permission management, etc but when you login, you only see on big button, and it says "Create". This is what it's all about - making it fun and intuitive to communicate...
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