Hi Randy,
The benefits of CR are
- support for versioning
- basic content types are there so you just need to extend them.
- a keyword/category service
- ability to relate multiple templates on a per item level
- ability to relate item A with several items in the CR
- organizing of items by folders
- and other benefits of OACS basic object model (permissions, etc.)
As I see it, it would be a good candidate for a CR app. One thing that you should look into is the scalability of CR. I have worked with CR but not to the extent of numbers of contents that you have described. In case you have got a top team that is better than aD's team then either modify CR or build one from scratch.
Here is also a good read on the different versioning strategies that was used by aD, ACS 3.x, ACS 4.x and CCM 5.x
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/redhat-ccm-list/2003-February/000791.html
At any rate its great news to have another CMS in the works.
