[thelist] opinions on CMS solutions

[Jonathan Dillon]

Look at:

http://www.ez.no/
http://www.plainblack.com/
http://www.drupal.com/
http://www.plone.org/
http://www.mambo.org/
http://www.magnolia.info/
http://www.opencms.org/
http://www.openacs.org/ 
http://www.typo3.org/
And bricolage...

Then read this:
http://www.cmswatch.com/Features/OpinionWatch/FeaturedOpinion/?feature_id=89

And then review this page:
http://www.cmswatch.com/ContentManagement/Products/

Bottom line... Lot out there, not much is very good.  The above is listed in
order of my personal (biased) reccomendation.  However, I run an eZ Publish
company, so please take it's top rating for a grain of salt: like I said,
I'm biased. ;-)

You might look for some 15-40k solutions in the above CMS Watch link.
Ektron, Roxen, Refresh, Sitecore, and a host of others not mentioned fill
this space.  I'm also somewhat fond of a product called hotbanana
(http://www.hotbanana.com/), which has excellent UI and helpful staff, and
rests squarely in the bottom of the price range mentioned.

So far, everything you looked at is going to be 60k+, or much more... I
would stop looking at the top end of the market for solutions, as they're
generally (IMHO) overpriced.

Good hunting,

Jonathan Dillon-Hayes
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http://www.Boehm-Ritter.com/

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Subject: [thelist] opinions on CMS solutions

I know that this is a commonly asked question, but, do any of you have a
recommendation for a low-cost, xhtml-valid, content management system? My
small company is looking for a CMS that includes support for versioning, and
syndication.

About us: we are a sports information group with 4 medium sites running on a
single windows 2003 server. We've looked into Vignette, Cm3, Documentum and
Acuity, but were unhappy with the total costs. Sadly, must of the free
offerings (DotNetNuke, Rainbow) didn't seem robust enough for the constant
updates and reports that we do each day.

Mike Pouncy [Technical Supervisor]
[WEB]-[http://fpbe.com] [MSN]-[pouncy_1 at hotmail.com]
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