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NextPage 1.5 Released
NextPage has released their new document management system, called NextPage 1.5. I’ve done a review for InfoWorld of the product that should be coming out shortly. The sneak peek: NextPage has managed to create a document management system that actually stands a chance of being used because it doesn’t require any central server be installed and doesn’t require that users change their work habits—at all.
Posted by windley on February 15, 2005 9:11 AM
Comment from Richard Miller at February 16, 2005 12:19 AM
I wonder if NextPage 1.5 will be more open (interoperability-wise) than past versions -- that's where I see its weakness. I was asked as a PHP programmer to develop a web form on a server that was running NextPage. The HTML form was a NextPage document, and we spent hours and hours getting the form to communicate properly with PHP. NextPage may be easy for the end user to update and maintain, but to a developer it is a sticky, proprietary hairball of documents that can't be accessed except through the NextPage interface (a DLL file that runs under IIS.) And that's not to mention that NextPage only runs on IIS and is fairly ugly.
Comment from Darren Lee at February 16, 2005 4:29 PM
Just to clarify Richard's comment. The issue you had in the past was based on our older product of NXT. We sold that product offering to Fast Search in September of 2004. The product Phil's referring to is a brand new, never been released before product from NextPage. You can see more about it at www.nextpage.com and you can also get a free trial version. Love to hear your thoughts on our new product, as you can appreciate, we are always looking for feedback to improve upon.