[consulting] CMS comparison

[Gunnar Langemark]

You're right Scott. Joomla is in fact an excellent system - compared to 
a lot of (even commercial) systems. And I know Joomla well enough to 
mean it.
I shouldn't be so negative.
I just get tired of all that discussion about why Drupal does not have 
the same success as Joomla. I mean. Drupal and Joomla are different. Do 
we want to be Joomla?
I think Drupal could easily give Joomla a close fight on "out of the box 
experience".  We have people working on  a default theme and we have 
people working on installers.
That should do it.
But the real strengths of Drupal are elsewhere.
And that should have some focus too.
Let's not try too hard to make Drupal something that is not really that 
important.
I'd even say - let's just make sure there's a great migration path for 
people who have Joomla, Mambo, Typo3, ezPublish, Wordpress, yes even 
Sharepoint sites. Then when they want a REAL system - the barrier is not 
so hard to pass.


Then there's marketing. How do we "brand" Drupal. A lot of wise remarks 
have been made. Drupal has grown out of "community plumbing". Drupal is 
much more nowadays. Drupal is: the coolest way to communicate.

Best
Gunnar


Scott Trudeau wrote:
>
> Perhaps the Lazy Guy isn't an idiot if all he needs is a simple, good 
> looking, 5 page site in 5 minutes and doesn't need a full out 
> application development framework.  There's lots of love to go around 
> in the open source CMS world.  I've deployed sites on WordPress and 
> TextPattern for which those platforms were perfectly adequate and 
> appropriate.   I'm working now on my first full-on Drupal site.  I 
> don't consider myself an idiot.  I use *a* right tool for the job.
>
> I think what is exciting in the Open Source CMS world is that out of 
> the jumble are emerging a few clear leaders, including Drupal and Joomla.
>
> In other words, be nice.  Save your ire for poorly done and overpriced 
> non-free software.
>
> Scott
>
> On 5/9/06, *Gunnar Langemark* <gunnar at langemark.com 
> <mailto:gunnar at langemark.com>> wrote:
>
>     John Sechrest wrote:
>     > What are the features of Joomla that people are reacting to, which
>     > drupal does not have?
>     >
>     >
>     Joomla looks good out of the box'
>     Joomla lets you make a small page based "site" in 5 minutes.
>
>     That's it.
>
>     Joomla is for the lazy  guy who does not care about drupal killer
>     features.
>
>     Let's not ignore the big wave drupal is catching right now. Drupal is
>     moving to become an application development framework in ways that
>     Joomla can only dream of. So what if the backwards idiots prefer
>     Joomla?
>     Who cares - when you know that you may lose one battle - but will win
>     the war?
>
>     Gunnar
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