[support] Dupal vs DotNetNuke

Sun Jun 22 10:48:10 UTC 2008

I suppose that when you say everyone has experience in Joomla, you mean that
the big decision is LAMP vs Microsoft, and PHP experience as against .NET.

You have to decide which architecture is right for the job before you decide
whether to use Drupal or DotNetNuke.

If, for some reason, IIS + .NET + Microsoft SQL Server is a required part of
the architecture for your clients, you should go with DotNetNuke (native to
that architecture), even though Drupal could run in that environement (on a
LAMP stack).

But if the environment can be Apache + MySql / PostgreSQL (even on a Windows
server), you are better off in Drupal.

You shouldn't make the decision based on a list of modules you have never
tried. Most of the functionality you describe is there in contributed
modules of good quality.

People here probably aren't familiar enough with the modules available for
DotNetNuke (not which appear on a list, but which actually work).

If either architecture would work, and you are driven by PHP experience of
your developers, that is OK, but Drupal has a steep learning curve, so if
no-one has experience with Drupal, it could take you a while before the team
gets up to scratch for a big job. If time is a big factor (and it always is)
look out for videos / mentoring / offsite project leader to guide the
developers on the one hand, and you with implementing your design in Drupal
components, on the other.

Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Sebastien Louis <sebastien at dianjingkeji.com>
wrote:

> Hi everybody.
>
> I have a big project for a customer here in China and after studying its
> requirements and the different technologies available out there, I am left
> with two choices: Drupal and DotNetNuke.
>
> This project indeed involve a very detailed list of user groups and
> permissions for its different features and these two Open-Source CMS seem to
> be the ones that provide the best ACL.
>
> I am personally more experienced with DotNetNuke and I'm confident that I
> could find all the DNN modules that I need for this project, but my team has
> mostly been working with Joomla! so if I can find all these modules for
> Drupal, that would probably be best.
>
> So I have had a quick look at the list of modules on the Drupal website and
> couldn't easily find those so I thought I'll flick a quick email to the
> support mailing-list.
>
> As you guys know Drupal much better than me, you might be able to let me
> know if these modules are actually available.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Sebastien Louis
>
> Project Manager
> Crystal Science & Technology
>
> --
>
> 1 - User Registration
>
> The main reason for choosing Drupal for this website is that it offers a
> powerful ACL. After registering to the website, users will be put in the
> Members group, but they should also have the ability to submit further
> documents and details to become a Verified Members. So it would be great to
> find an existing module that can handle two-steps registrations.
>
>
> 2 - User Profile
>
> Registered users will be given the ability to manage their own user
> profile. Like most websites of this kind, users will be able to keep some of
> these details private.
>
> However, even though the email address might not be displayed, users should
> be able to email the users they visit the user profile. This is similar to
> sending a message to the user except that the message is send by email. No
> need for an internal inbox for each user.
>
>
> 3 - User Directory
> The purpose of this module is to provide the ability to access the profiles
> of the users in a specific group (i.e. the list of Verified Members).
>
> Details of the different users will be displayed according to a set of
> internal rules (i.e. do not show the email address) and according to each
> user preferences (i.e. user can choose to show his address or not).
>
> To browse this directory, visitors will be able to use an advanced search
> interface (i.e. search by name, city, region, country...) or by clicking on
> a simple map with predefined regions.
>
>
> 4 - Marketing Tools
>
> The purpose of this module is to take advantage of the list of users to
> send them newsletters and invitations according to different criteria (i.e.
> group, region, date of birth...).
>
>
> 5 - Calendar of Events
>
> A standard calendar module that can be configured to display role based
> events.
>
>
> 6 - Forums
>
> A standard forum module that can be configured to display role based
> threads.
>
>
> 7 - Online Discussion
>
> The purpose of this module is to setup an online discussion on a specific
> topic between an expert and the different users of the website. Questions
> will be posted by the users for the expert to answer. Moderators will need
> to review the questions before they are sent to the expert.
>
>
> 8 - RSS Feeds
>
> A standard RSS reader module that can be configured to display role based
> feeds.
>
>
> 9 - News Feeds
>
> A standard news module that can be configured to display role based news.
>
> Ideally the administrator of the website should be able to publish news in
> different categories and each category will be displayed in a different
> page, but if that's not possible, administrating several instance of the
> module should be fine.
>
> Control over the number of news per page and over the layout of the
> different pages should be easy to setup or hack.
>
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