By Sean McMains
Conversant is a complete platform for building groupware applications. Free Conversant, which you're using now, is a sample application Macrobyte Resources has created to demonstrate the power of the Conversant system. Conversant, and by extension, Free Conversant, support interaction among members and non-members using the WWW, Email, or NNTP (newsgroups). It also implements a powerful Content Management System, of which Brian Carnell says "...I wouldn't say Conversant has necessarily lowered the amount of time I spend doing purely management things, but what is has done is increase probably by a factor of 10 the amount of things I get done when I spend an hour or two attending to site management issues."
The best way to begin to understand the value of Conversant is to try it out with a Free Conversant site of your own.
