Re: [ossig] Content Management System - which ?

[Ditesh <ditesh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> But still, I'd also appreciate very much *real world experience* with 
> respect to the alternatives.
> Will those of you using any Open Source CMS please wrap up the most 
> relevant pro's and con's, please ?


I'm assuming that you have control over the base infrastructure and that 
you're looking for something long term.

I'd suggest Plone. It's powerful, has an excellent user interface, 
integrates well with third party systems and is well designed. Just 
noticed yesterday that FSF had moved to Plone. The disadvantage of Plone 
would be that you'd not find a guy experienced with Plone as easily as 
you would do with PHP based CMS's. Also, Plone+Zope has the scalability 
bit covered well, kaeru would be able to explain more on this.

I'd suggest staying away from PHP based CMS's. The reason is simple - my 
experience has shown that while these CMS are mature and feature 
complete, they have the disadvantage of:

1) being security-challenged. That is, the developers usually don't give 
much thought to security when architecting the system. They are 
exceptions, of course, but I wouldn't touch PHPNuke/PostNuke and 
derivatives with a ten-foot pole.
2) having poor code design. Because many of the existing PHP CMS's were 
developed ages ago and have been evolving since, they carry the legacy 
cruft and generally exhibit poor design which makes extensibility hard. 
Once again, there are certain exceptions but as a rule of thumb, its true.

Its a sad state of affairs with PHP based CMS's but unfortunately true. 
The advantage of PHP based CMS's over competitors is its sheer 
simplicity and relatively low learning curve. On the scalability front, 
you'd have the option of horizontal scalability but you'd have to do it 
manually.

Ditesh


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