[thelist] opinions on CMS solutions

[Jeff Howden]

Jan,

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> From: Jan Brasna
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> Switch to PHP. [...]
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Nonsense.  There's absolutely *no* need to switch development languages.
Solutions in all sorts of price ranges, qualities, and capabilities are
available in any of the major development languages (PHP, ASP, CF, Perl,
etc.).

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> Solutions like Drupal.org are robust enough and still
> extensible to provide this functionality [...]
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Mike,

Extensibility brings with it performance losses, customization issues,
learning curve, stability, scalability, increased troubleshooting cost, and
bugs.  Further, no one product out there can solve all your needs without
some custom development (which the product you choose may or may not be able
to ever do anyway).  Depending on your budget, it *might* be more cost
effective to outsource the development to a company that can build a custom
solution for you.  If your needs are fairly lightweight, it's likely that
the project cost will be less than using a product and/or overall cost of an
OSS solution.  Remember, just because the software itself doesn't cost you
anything doesn't mean it'll have a lower total cost of ownership.

Jeff
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