Re: [OSCOM] CMS Choices

Sorry for this maybe naive question, but why not considdering PostNuke as an 
alternative? The recent version 0.75 Gold, looks very solid, and in general 
PN has a wide array of modules to configure it for very different needs.

Just if you can provide me some reasons to look for another CMS, since I am a 
happy PostNuke user since 3 years already (but maybe I am missing 
something...).

Regrads, Rob.

El Sábado, 5 de Febrero de 2005 22:31, Thomas Bolioli escribió:
> 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