Re: [OSCOM] CMS Choices

> The front end site cannot look like a CMS based site so things such as 
> blog/slash-like packages are out. What I am currently looking at is 
> Mambo, Midgard/Aegir, Cocoon/Lenya, ezPublish, and openCMS. What is 
> everyone's opinion of those choices and am I missing something here 
> that I should be looking at?

Hello Thomas,
I suggest you to give a look at Ariadne CMS, which can
satisfy your publishing needings in minutes. Look at
http://www.ariadne-cms.org/ or italian version available
at http://www.ariadnecms.it/ (well, this one deal also
with other content managers). About the other ones, my
humble opionion is: mambo is for "community driven" sites,
has a big community of developers and template makers,
but is for small sites and has no real workflow inside.
Midgard/Aegir requires really specific operating system
and software installed, so you should be the administrator
of the computer. Cocoon/Lenya has a rather complex interface
and imho should be used by skilled publishers. I never used
openCMS, so I cannot give hints on that. About ezPublish,
i think it is similar to Zope/Plone. Another one you could
look at is Typo3, but you need to practice your XSL skills
in order to write templates for this cms :-)

Have a nice day,
dino termini
www.ariadnecms.it