[consulting] CMS comparison

[leighm at linuxbandwagon.com]

Keep in mind the word "plumbing" is aimed at people who are looking for 
a CMS they can
plumb to suite their requirements, that word is not being used to aim 
for end users -
general visitors to drupal sites.

Need to keep seperate in your mind the approach by drupal team to get 
the idea of the
application/platform across versus how the end users would see a site 
that runs on drupal


Quoting Rob Barreca <rob at electronicinsight.com>:

> Hehe...I agree. The word plumbing should be scrapped.  I definitely 
> got that feeling the first time I was checking out drupal.org.
>
> What about "drupal.org | The community content management platform" 
> or something cooler?
>
> Rob Roy Barreca
> Electronic Insight Corporation
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> San Diego, CA 92130
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> rob at electronicinsight.com
>
>
>
> Nick Lewis wrote:
>> John Sechrest 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.
>>>
>>> What are the features of Joomla that people are reacting to, which
>>> drupal does not have?
>>>
>>>
>>> What are the features of drupal that people don't know, but which
>>> if they did, would cause them to prefer drupal?
>>>
>> Its worth noting that a lot of CMS comparisons unfairly favor 
>> Joomla, and other platforms because they don't take the library of 
>> 3rd party modules and themes into account. Also, I wrote an article 
>> some time ago about this, http://www.nicklewis.org/mambo-vs-drupal 
>> -- I think the 60-80 comments that have been posted in response are 
>> more interesting than anything I said. Generally my point was:
>>
>> Compare the first thing that a "shopper" sees when they visit the two sites:
>>
>> *Drupal: "Community Plumbing" *
>>
>> Lead text: "Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal can 
>> support a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large 
>> community-driven websites."
>>
>> *Mambo: "Power in Simplicity" *
>>
>> Lead text: "Mambo is one of the most powerful Open Source Content 
>> Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for 
>> everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. 
>> Mambo is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable."
>>
>> The truth is that Mambo is bulky, badly optimized for search 
>> engines, and generally rigid and brittle to customized. Drupal, on 
>> the other hand, is perhaps the most search engine friendly CMS on 
>> the market. Its modular, flexible, its underlying design has been 
>> guided by a stellar philosophy. But, I only know that because I work 
>> with the things. Customers who do their shopping, on the other hand, 
>> have the word "plumbing" as part of their first impression of drupal.
>>
>> Drupal chose a word that evokes images of ass-cracks, human waste, 
>> clogged toilets, bills from the plumber, and plungers."
>>
>> :-/
>>
>> Best,
>> Nick Lewis
>> http://www.nicklewis.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
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