Re: [OSCOM] CMS Choices

Erik Hatcher wrote:

> Re: search - Lucene!!!  Not that I'm biased or anything -


;-)

btw, I just noted that nutch became an Apache Incubator project:

http://incubator.apache.org/nutch/

Michi

> 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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