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- Akairenn, on 07/01/2009, -1/+60Calling Drupal 'promising' is like calling Google 'upcoming'.
- BloggerSavvy, on 06/30/2009, -1/+47"...Promising..."?
Some of these have been around for a while now, they're past promising and are in productive use. - annjay, on 06/30/2009, -2/+26I like Drupal. It has a lot of powerful extensions to turn your site to a community website. One of the example is Drigg, which is a Digg clone script for Drupal.
- remino, on 07/01/2009, -0/+21This article looks like someone just discovered what a CMS is yesterday and did a random search for the acronym on Google. WordPress and Drupal have already proved themselves.
Also, how can WordPress be considered a full-fledged CMS and beat Drupal? Large portions of codes in WordPress didn't change much from b2 and they still refuse to add multilanguage and other features many other CMS software already have. (Although, I will agree that WordPress is the simplest to use once installed. For developers, however...)
Finally, besides WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla, I don't think I heard anything (or at most, very little) of the others. - id000001, on 07/01/2009, -8/+24Wordpress is a blog tool, doesn't really qualifies as a content management since all it manage is words and little else. Not to say it can't do it, but it isn't design as a CMS.
- freebsdmike, on 07/01/2009, -3/+14This author didn't give the slightest bit of consideration to code quality..
- mohamedrias786, on 06/30/2009, -5/+15Wordpress is definitely the most popular content management system. There are so many plugins and themes ready for use.
- Visual77, on 07/01/2009, -0/+9EE is not open source.
- palmer, on 07/01/2009, -0/+7Exactly. The first reasonable reaction is, WTF? There are 20 new systems on the scene all of a sudden? Then you see the first entry, and you know you're dealing with some kind of noob.
- tj111, on 07/01/2009, -2/+9Wordpress has the most horrendous code base I've ever seen.
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20) Drupal - Visual77, on 07/01/2009, -0/+7http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/7134 ...
EE is not open source. This article is just about open source CMS. - MScrip, on 07/01/2009, -2/+8I found this definition of a CMS on another site:
"a CMS stores the text separately from the presentation of the content. This means when a visitor comes to a Web page, the CMS is pulling the various parts and pieces of the page from a database and dynamically generating it. CMS' use templates to ensure pages display consistently across the site – even if different people are managing the site."
This article says "a CMS is an application used to manage news easily so that users can publish, edit and delete articles from the back-end admin system." Then it lists Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla as the first 3 on that list.
What is the difference between a blog tool and a CMS? With the ability to have static web pages... and not just chronological blog articles... these programs are blurring the lines between "blogging" software and a CMS anyway. You can run a website on Wordpress... even if you don't have a blog. Once you build the template... users can add content to the site without knowing how to code. That sounds like a CMS to me.
Sure, Wordpress isn't as robust as Vignette... the system behind many of the web's largest content sites... but it's still pretty capable as a CMS.
Sites can be built in Drupal and Joomla, and those can be considered a CMS. You could build the exact same site in Wordpress... why wouldn't it be considered a CMS too? - woofers07, on 07/01/2009, -1/+7Half of these are not "upcoming" by any means, and the lack of any real explanation makes this list weak.
- Bloodwine, on 07/01/2009, -0/+6A good resource is CMS Matrix:
http://www.cmsmatrix.org/
It has a huge list of content management systems, both open-source and commercial. Also, it has several non-PHP content management systems listed.
However, it does have a feature comparison tool and an area where people can leave reviews/comments for each CMS. - ternto333, on 07/01/2009, -1/+6Dugg for Drupal props
- jedinsyd, on 07/01/2009, -3/+8Wordpress is a horrible CMS for a corporate site.
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -0/+5Though it is powerful, it costs money...
- InorganicMatter, on 07/01/2009, -2/+7What on earth is with #1?! WordPress is a BLOGGING platform, not a full-featured CMS.
(Yeah, you can hack it into a CMS, at the risk of everything breaking with the next update.) - bloodybenny, on 07/01/2009, -0/+5The author of this article clearly spent a whole 30 minutes taking pretty pictures of the websites and writing useless copy. Enough of these lists - can we get some real comparative analysis, please?
- dogfood, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4Large Drupal sites (Where the WHOLE site is in Drupal):
http://change.gov/
http://www.mylifetime.com/
http://www.fastcompany.com/
http://www.eff.org/
Also Sony/BMG and Warner Brothers' artist sites work off multisite Drupal installs where all the sites share the same codebase and module sets, but are themed differently. - JeffTS, on 07/01/2009, -1/+5Interesting list. I hadn't heard of most of these. I've been using CMS Made Simple. I tried working with Joomla and couldn't quite figure it out due to a lack of documentation for the version that my Web host offered. I also had to work with Typo3 many years ago and didn't like it at all. It wasn't very intuitive and, at the time, I couldn't find any quality documentation for it.
- Visual77, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4@micahgoulart - Being able to access the source code is halfway there, but true FOSS is all about freedom to do with it as you please, including modify, relabel and redistribute. EE is definitely more free than some stuff I've seen (completely encrypted libraries), but even according to project admins, it isn't open source.
- Bloodwine, on 07/01/2009, -0/+4Another good resource is opensourceCMS:
http://www.opensourcecms.com/
Here you can get a list of PHP open-source content management systems with links to demos of each CMS. There is usually a link to the front-end interface as well as a link to the administration interface. It really allows you to tinker around with each CMS to see which one works for you. - mrBitch, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3@ adorkable81, RE: " .. free for the basic build "
Free or not, it's still not open source. - leamanc, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3Call it EAV or whatever you like, but any well-designed SQL database should follow that model.
- Bloodwine, on 07/01/2009, -2/+5I consider WordPress a blogging system, not an actual content management system (CMS).
WordPress is great for personal websites, but I really can't see it being versatile and powerful enough to handle large websites, such as business websites. - Gumphlumph, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3Ummm, yeah. Number 6 - Mambo. Is that even supported anymore? When was the last time dev developed a component for mambo? They don't...because they all moved to Joomla. Mambo (open source version) is a legacy product. Would be good if these guys could get their facts right.
- collution, on 07/01/2009, -1/+4Most of these have been out for a while, so "promising" is inaccurate. And then on top of that, half of these i'd never even consider using. I don't see how there can be 20 "promising" competitors anyway, the gap in features for some of these CMSs are wide and long. This article lacks knowledgeable substance, it's pretty much just a list of CMSs.
- Daniel0, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3SilverStripe as number 5? SilverStripe is a major piece of *****. Unstable and buggy as hell. It's poorly designed and alpha version quality. It sounds good the way they present it, but when you actually start working it you'll quickly realize that it sucks.
- eatsushi, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3Always depends on what you or the client needs my friend.
- jemka, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3I wish there was a rating system for open source projects so developers could know before diving deep into projects.
- srobertson203, on 07/01/2009, -1/+4It looks like almost all of those companies are only using Wordpress for their various blogs though, which to me is different than a Content Management System. Admittedly I haven't used Wordpress all that much, but I might be more inclined to believe that it's on par with something like Drupal if these companies used Wordpress for their entire site...
- dogfood, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2Nothing may compare to the plug and play ease of Wordpress, but it is far from powerful. If you want power you go with Drupal or Plone.
- 1longtime, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2I doubt they would agree with the one-tool-will-solve-everything-you-ever-need-always theory on Reddit either.
But hey, maybe we're just not fully appreciating your "honesty." - defunctlife, on 07/02/2009, -0/+2Concrete5 is by far the best CMS I have used in a while. Built on a familiar MVC framework, it integrates in context editing direct on pages. It's not perfect, but developing online apps that require a user to have static editable pages, it is a great choice.
This CMS is made for developers with experience in order to make it easiest to use for a client with none. - kkiran, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2Though the rest look interesting, Wordpress is the way to go!
My choices (out of experience) :
1) Blog : Wordpress rocks!
2) Web site : Joomla / Drupal will do the job! - quantax, on 07/01/2009, -1/+3While wordpress is a solid platform, I would point you to this for future arguments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_authority
- avalanche123, on 06/30/2009, -3/+5Symphony is very cool. From what I know, it uses the EAV (entity-attribute-value) style database design architechture which fits any model without modifying the database structure
- gnatinator, on 07/01/2009, -1/+2nc-cms at http://www.nconsulting.ca/nc-cms/
Under an hour to integrate, and really simple for clients to understand and use! - mathew_bug, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1Text Pattern is the most flexible one, hands down.
Sure, the admin panel might not look 'cool' compared to WordPress, but sure as hell was lots of potential. - abigar, on 07/12/2009, -0/+1MODx has work for me, is not as powerful as drupal or plone, but is very flexible
- RonniSR, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1Every developer with respect for himself and the source he works with wont need a lame list like this.
My choice is easy: Drupal.
But looking forward for 7th version with a lot more usability. - reaneyk, on 07/12/2009, -0/+1This article is a listing of PHP based Open Source apps, WebGUI is written in Perl
- palmer, on 07/01/2009, -1/+2WTF? WordPress but no Movable Type?
- esc27, on 07/01/2009, -1/+2Unfortunately every "CMS" I've ever tested (mabo, joomla, drupal, etc.) was essentially a blogging engine with plug-ins. I managed to make a page using Joomla, but had to workaround its blog centric nature. When will there be truly open CMS's that are simply designed to make any kind of website.
- SpareAccount, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1^That'd save a lot of wasted effort
http://www.opensourcecms.com/
...lets you 'try before you buy' (as it were - and includes feedback comments), but the real problem when you're faced with making a commitment decision is that you only really get to learn about all of the quirks and foibles once you've spent a bit of time working with one of these systems, and trying to achieve some non-standard bit of functionality.
By that point you're probably already far enough along that it would be painful to switch, so you're stuck with it and just have to muddle through as best you can.
To get a useful, objective opinion about the vast number of alternative CMS would require the same set of people to implement the same non-trivial project across as many of them as possible, and then compile and publish their experiences.
I've only ever used a CMS once, but I really had a hard time figuring out why any one was better than the others, in the end I took pot luck (and despite the tone of my opening paragraph, e107 has served me well!) - blitzkriegpunk, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1Agreed, I LOVE Symphony. Been using it since the original beta release. Glad to see it get some well-deserved publicity. A lot of hard work went into making the system as flexible as possible.
- keyo, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1Wordpress is for blogs and pages, anything more and you're better off with something else. A real content management system can be adapted to suit any kind of content.
So it's kind of a cms in the same way that the peal p50 is a car. - keyo, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1Digg is lame now. I remember when the content was half decent.
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