The name Harvest, is derived from the idea that, instead of managing content, we are mostly likely to generate it, in the sense of 'harvesting information'.

The history of Harvest is about 3 years old, it has a predecessor around 2004, which was named CORE, which ironically is still running, albeit out-dated.

CORE was purely a content management system, but Harvest has evolved from that into: a rapid web application development framework.

It is believed that instead of looking at web projects and 'systems, that need managing', they need to be view as information repositories that need to streamlined to improve how they are consumed.

That is what Harvest is intended for, the focus being information mangement rather than content/data management.

When you shift focus to managing information, you get the ability to do almost anything with the same thing.  Harvest has been used on

1. Sinah Ntholi Nkoane,
2. Johannesburg Metrobus, 
3. HarambeAfrica, 
4. HALF
5. 75
6. Gusto Project
7. GUSTO
8. and 4 other projects which cannot be listed until they go public
9. oh, this particalur site, is also Harvested.

The growth of Harvest is dictated by the projects involved, so it's strength lies in it being used on different projects with different specifications.

As things are we are confident it will grow from strength to strength, and the mere fact that it is developed from open source software (apache, mysql, php (and when required linux)).