Hello World!
Hallo Welt!

My name is Gerhard Schobbe and I'm the Group Program Manager for the Content Managment Server team. I have the honor to produce the first entry for what is to become the team blog for a bunch of folks working on web content management features that (drumroll -- well ok, the cat left the bag at PDC) will be based on the Sharepoint stack in the next version of Office '12' servers.

As a quick aside: What does a Group Program Manager do? Most days, I'm wondering about that too, but the shortest meaningful answer is that a GPM @ MS is reponsible for a team of program managers who write the specifications for a set of capabilities, in my case centered around web content management.

Anyway: It's a super-exciting release for us with and boy, is there a lot to talk about: what did we do, how did we do it and of course WHY did we do it?
I'm sure there are many questions out there, both from customers and users of the current Content Managment Server 2002 product and from audiences interested in Sharepoint technologies. We'll make an attempt at providing both overviews and drilldowns on those topics that caused the longest and toughest discussions as well as on the topics that are the most critical (in our humble opinions) to get clarity around IF one were to embark on deploying a website based on what we built.
And if we're neither complete nor too strucutured about that task, hey, that's why this is a blog.
We'll read all the comments and react to the ones that move the discussion forward into fruitful directions.
We'll try to post relatively frequently but when we're not, rest assured we're working hard on something that's important for the release and we'll be back soon.

So much for the first post.
Enjoy!