[drupal-docs] CMS comparison

[Boris Mann]

Steven -- this is a fantastic analysis and write-up. This is  
*exactly* the sort of thing that should be posted on Drupal.org (or,  
if you posted this on your site, re-blogged on Drupal.org). I'm not  
"signed up" to the Press/Marketing Team, but I'd like to contribute  
as I can.

Please post this somewhere so that we can point to it!

On 27-May-05, at 2:11 PM, Steven Wittens wrote:

> Dries Buytaert wrote:
>
>
>> Somewhat off-topic but see http://fiskbooth.com/report-full.pdf.
>>
>>
>>
>
> I thought this review was quite odd...
>
> I read through it, and from the text I got a very good impression of
> Drupal and most of the other software. Yet at the end, they decide to
> give each CMS a score based on the presence of certain shallow  
> features.
> As has been pointed out, they did not include contributed modules, so
> Drupal is said not to have wysiwig or trackback and scores very, very
> low. On top of that, the report was written for 21Publish, and in  
> spite
> of a claim of no bias, I find it suspicious that that product scores
> 9.5, though there was mention of some serious bugs and lack of
> extensibility which almost all the competitors have.
>
> Furthermore, they say Drupal lacks the following features in their
> scoring chart:
>
> - "Automated blog sign-up": signing up on a site with blog.module  
> gives
> you a blog automatically, but this isn't very clear in Drupal. It has
> been discussed before, but perhaps we should look again at making
> blog.module more suited for blog hosting. The same goes for "simple
> multi-blog support" which we do have. Still, it is as simple as
> explaining the benefits of registration to your users.
>
> - "Blog branding": IMO this is a big oversight on their part, which  
> they
> say is about being able to easily brand each blog with a banner at the
> top. Drupal has plenty capabilities, with logos in the header, sidebar
> blocks, etc. You have full control with the theme system.
>
> - "Archiving": does not apply due to our use of dynamic pages, but we
> still have archive.module as well as the ability to access old content
> like it was new. IMO classic blog-style archiving of pages is a stupid
> practice that has no place in a real CMS. All content should be equal.
>
> - "Blog aggregation": with RSS feeds for all the important blog pages
> and a built-in news aggregator with custom categorization, I think
> Drupal scores a generous +1 on this item.
>
> By their own logic, we should score 9.5, not 5.5 ;). I guess the
> question is: how can we make our existing features more visible to
> users? Something for the docs team to think about...
>
> Steven Wittens
>
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