[consulting] CMS comparison

[Bill Fitzgerald]

Hello, all,

Once an app has reached a critical mass and becomes self sustaining, 
it's less about popularity and more about functionality. As others have 
said, Joomla looks better out of the box, and lets you do a small number 
of things quickly. However, with Joomla, have fun going beyond that 
basic functionality.

Drupal gives you a more flexible platform than Joomla, and nobody would 
really argue that point. Discussions about popularity, and especially 
discussions about popularity based on page views, don't factor 
functionality/flexibility into the equation.

RE the spike in mid-April: possibly SoC related?

Cheers,

Bill

Dan Robinson wrote:
>> Today I saw the article about CMS War:
>>
>> http://www.torkiljohnsen.com/2006/05/09/cms-war/
>>
>> And it looks from the graph that drupal is doing well, but that 
>> Joomla is doing better.
>>   
>>     
> in my opinion there is nothing to worry about.  Running a close second
> like that can be an advantage (we're number 2 and we try harder). 
>   
>> What are the features of Joomla that people are reacting to, which
>> drupal does not have?
>>   
>>     
> this has been discussed extensively elsewhere.  My take-away - Joomla
> does better "out of box" than Drupal.
>   
>> What are the features of drupal that people don't know, but which
>> if they did, would cause them to prefer drupal?
>>   
>>     
> it isn't about features it is more about focus.  There are more "casual
> users" and "brochure websites" out there than "web heads" and "community
> web platforms".
>
>
> What trips me out is the spike in Mid April - what is that about??
>   
>>
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