RE: Open Source Content Management System

Have you also considered Umbraco[0]? I have heard some very good things
about it, and large parts of www.asp.net run on it, so you know it can
handle the load. It has the commercial support infrastructure on it as well,
and from what I can tell a better underlying framework than DotNetNuke does
(or did, last time I looked).

 

They were also a sponsor of our latest Seattle codecamp, for what that's
worth.

 

-Chris

 

[0] http://umbraco.org

 

From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 6:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [OT] Open Source Content Management System

 

  

We would like to use a CMS for our client facing website. 

We budgeted $$$ to purchase one. 

All of m y research and asking my community buds is pointing us to
DotNetNuke: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/

I have no experience with a CMS. Our goal is to make the content in our
client facing site configurable so we do not have to ask our developers to
do it for us and then wait for the next release. Nothing fancy, just the
ability to store and load content dynamically. 

Anyone here have experience with DotNetNuke? Open Source is great, though we
are willing to pay for a "retail" product if we need to. 

I see it's a MIT style license that requires attribution in our source code.
I'm not a lawyer but it looks quite straightforward unlike the GPL licenses.

Regarding security - we are concerned about contributors leaving backdoors
in the code since it is open source. I don't see this as being an issue so
long as we keep up with the latest patches.

Should we be concerned with licensing and back doordoors in?