Re: [OSCOM] CMS Choices

Re: search - Lucene!!!  Not that I'm biased or anything - 
http://www.lucenebook.com - but Lucene is fast, scalable, and used in a 
vast number of applications proving itself quite capable.

	Erik


On Feb 5, 2005, at 4:31 PM, Thomas Bolioli wrote:

> I am in the process of deciding on a CMS product for my needs and I 
> need a little guidance since I have never had a need for CMS before. I 
> can be pretty flexible as far as technology (java/php/etc;) but I have 
> some pretty specific needs with regards to function. I would prefer 
> some form of open source, something that runs on linux, based on open 
> standards (to the extent they exist) and that has the ability for plug 
> ins/addons/extensible. Basically, the setup I am looking to implement 
> is multiple sites by multiple companies so I would like to not have to 
> setup multiple installations but share one installation but I will use 
> multiple installations if I need to. The sites have a mix of static 
> data and dynamic data presented based on queried/posted info from user 
> input. Some sites will require events calenders, search capability, 
> newsletters and address book management (site address book users, not 
> CMS users). I am a programmer so I can write/modify plugins to do what 
> I need to do when it does not exist (ie; that address book thing). The 
> site owners do not (mostly) really need to create new pages (I am 
> doing it so I can code without wysiwyg), although one site will need 
> to create new newsletters from templates (or dynamically based on 
> data...), but they will need to create and edit events, and other 
> content. That is actually why I need the CMS portion, just to handle 
> the data entry. I was thinking of writing all of this myself since an 
> editor is not really needed, just data entry but I would hate to 
> reinvent the wheel and would prefer to leverage what is out there.
> 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? Is CMS overkill and I should roll my own? 
> I am curious about search. I do not see much out there so any advice 
> on that part would be good. In a pinch we can use google's API so that 
> is not required.
> Thanks in advance,
> Tom
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