LMS vs. LCMS, what do u think the difference ? And which system you prefer ?

LMS and LCMS compared:

The focus of an LMS is to deliver online courses or training to learners, while managing students and keeping track of their progress and performance across all types of training activities. An LMS is not used to create course content.

By contrast, a learning content management system (LCMS) is a related software technology that provides a multi-user environment where developers, authors, instructional designers, and subject matter experts may create, store, reuse, manage, and deliver digital e-learning content from a central object repository. LCMS focuses on the development, management and publishing of the content that will typically be delivered via an LMS. Users can both create and re-use e-learning content and reduce duplicated development efforts.

Rather than developing entire courses and adapting them to multiple audiences, an LCMS provides the ability for single course instances to be modified and republished for various audiences maintaining versions and history. The objects stored in the centralized repository can be made available to course developers and content experts throughout an organization for potential reuse and repurpose. This eliminates duplicate development efforts and allows for the rapid assembly of customized content. Some systems have tools to deliver and manage instructor-led synchronous and asynchronous online training based on learning object methodology.

LCMSs provide tools for authoring and reusing or re-purposing content (mutated learning objects, or MLOs) as well as virtual spaces for student interaction (such as discussion forums, live chat rooms and live web-conferences). LCMS technology can either be used in tandem with an LMS, or as a standalone application for learning initiatives that require rapid development and distribution of learning content.

While LMS and LCMS products have different strengths and weaknesses, they generally address the following areas of functionality:

LMS Functionality

Course Content Delivery

Student Registration and Administration

Training Event Management (i.e., scheduling, tracking)

Curriculum and Certification Management

Skills and Competencies Management

Skill Gap Analysis

Individual Development Plan

Reporting

Training Record Management

Courseware Authoring

LCMS Functionality

Template-driven, Collaborative Content Development

Facilitated Content Management (i.e., indexing and reuse)

Publishing

Workflow Integration

Automated Interface with an LM

Learning Content Management System (LCMS):

Learning Content Management System is a web-based technology used to create, manage and maintain the learning content. Content includes audio, video, graphics, written text that will make your courses fully customizable. LCMS also has the capability to store the content and retrieve older versions whenever required. In LCMS, we can create learning objects that can be reused. Word or PowerPoint files, PDF files, audio and video are some of the reusable learning objects.

The focus of the LCMS is the management of course content rather than learner activity, LCMS are mainly for course developers rather than learners.

the LMS focus on  manage both classroom and eLearning with the emphasis on registering people and tracking and recording the activity. 

in short words: LCMS focus on the content itselfLMS focus on the managing the learning and activity 

i prefer to us LMS :)