Comments on: Looking for a good CMS

By: Roger Marin

Roger Marin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

You can try dotCMS http://www.dotcms.org/ it has a bunch of cool features, and we are just releasing up with version 1.6 give it a try!

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Seems like a CMS is such an important concept that no one knows how to do. I feel your frustration.

By: tom

tom — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

OpenCMS

By: Warner Onstine

Warner Onstine — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

@tom

Yeah, I took a brief look at [OpenCMS](http://opencms.org) and found a few issues that stopped me from looking further:
* Demo site didn’t work (couldn’t log in as admin to save my life)
* The screenshots did not look intuitive at all (and the look and feel of it turned me off completely)

It might be a perfectly good solution, but I just don’t have time to download and play with each and every one of these. I need a CMS to show me what I need to know quickly so I can make a decision.

By: hartsock

hartsock — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I’m doing the same thing right now. I’ve got the same list, only one to add… What do you think of:
http://www.dspace.org/

I’m still evaluating myself.

By: Warner Onstine

Warner Onstine — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

@harstock

I looked at DSpace as part of my UofArizona work a long time ago (we were looking for something to manage our digital collectionas). If you’re looking for something to strictly manage content and versions I think that DSpace is fine, but it is definitely not a CMS in my terminology (i.e. – something for managing Web-site content). It is first and foremost a content repository and metadata repository (which is great for Universities who want to provide unique and constant URLs for data that will be referenced by other sites and publications).

While it has grown it doesn’t look like it’s left this behind, only added some more stuff on top of. So, not for me (at least not this project). [Leo](http://www.u.arizona.edu/~przybyls/) was using it to store some of his books in PDF format to add metadata to them and make them accessible, but I don’t know how far he took it.

By: MV

MV — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

http://www.plone.org/

— MV

By: MV

MV — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

http://www.nuxeo.com/en/ if Java is a must

— MV

By: Harry

Harry — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Have you looked at hosting costs? As a Java developer, I used to prefer a Java solution, but couldn’t find Java hosting that competed price wise with PHP/Perl. Have you asked them how much they want to spend?

By: Warner Onstine

Warner Onstine — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

@MV

Hmm, hadn’t really given Plone that much that – of course haven’t looked at since I first started looking at Python. Wait, I’m misremembering I looked at Zope (the underlying platform to Plone). Alright, you’ve convinced me, I’ll take another peek at Plone to see if it will fit the bill.

Oh, and Nuxeo has that word ‘Enterprise Content Management’ which gives me the willies now – I think it means “We don’t have to worry about having a good UI because we’re ‘Enterprise’”, but I’ll look.

@Harry

Same cost as if it were not a Java-based solution. I have an ISP that I work with for almost all of my hosting and they are very accommodating.