[consulting] CMS comparison

[leighm at linuxbandwagon.com]

yes BUT


As it stands there are three places joomla or mambo really stand above drupal

- Excellent gallery support (uses some existing packages and you can 
get interconnectors
from mambo/joomla to them, unlike drupal gallery2 which is a major hack)

- Superior ecommerce support (ecommerce in drupal is relatively new)

- Excellent forum support (uses some existing forum packages and you can get
interconnectors from mambo/joomla to them)

i think you'll find these points are hard to argue against

Quoting Nick Lewis <nick at nicklewis.org>:

> 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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