[thelist] roll your own cms

[Les Lytollis]

Hi All,

I have been tasked with putting together a comparison document for "roll
your own" cms vs off the shelf systems such as Vignette.

Apart from the obvious (cost vs development time) - does anyone have any
good resources for
looking up the pros and cons of building your own solution from something
like PHP.

How would I go about comparing things such as performance, scalability,
internationalisation,
personalisation, etc, etc  - here are my initial thoughts.

Open source:
Performance - Fast, reliable performance for LAMP technologies is well
documented.

Scalability - since PHP can use java or DCOM + Oracle,etc.  the business
tier and back-end can be scaled as easily as an out of the box solution.

Extendability - modular, OO programming?

Internationalisation/Localisation - don't know - I assume PHP, etc support
UTF-8

Personalisation - sessions

Usability - depends on good communication between the developers and the
users (ha!)

Load balancing/failover - don't know

TIA for any help

Lez