RIO has not yet matured into a great product, but it certainly has potential. Install and Configure RIO requires a Web server, an FTP server, and a relational database. The product works with Microsoft IIS and Netscape Enterprise Server Web servers and can use Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and Sybase databases. We installed RIO on Windows NT 4.0 with the Windows NT Option Pack and Microsoft SQL Server 6.5. We liked RIO's content organization and distributed publishing.
Administrators can set up channels for different departments or for project teams.
Each channel can be assigned publishers that have the right to publish items and create folders in the channel. With this version, you can assign to channels and folders unique URLs that display when a user clicks on the channel or folder. This lets you provide a channel description or include content accessible through a URL, at the channel or folder level of the hierarchy. Channels, folders, and items are displayed hierarchically in the left pane of the browser window. By clicking on mini-icons, channels and folders can be expanded and collapsed.