timwhit
Hairy Aussie
I know there have been threads about content management systems in the past, but I'm looking for feedback on open source systems that I do not have experience with.
My main experience has been with Joomla, and it is a fairly good piece of software, but I need some input on some alternatives. Wikipedia has a list that is pretty in-depth, but, other than what language it is written in and what DB it runs on I can't tell how good of a product each one is, how big the community is, or how extensible it is.
This is going to be used for a fairly simple corporate website. The most complicated things on the site now are a couple of forms that capture information in a database and send out an email when submitted.
We do not currently support any MySQL databases, so that is one issue. It seems no one wants to take on the responsibility of supporting a new DB. It appears that every open source product supports MySQL out of the box, and other DBs are a far cry from being well supported. Even the ones on the Wikipedia list that say they support Oracle, I couldn't find any instructions on their sites on how to do the installation, which does not bode well for how it is supported.
The language is relatively unimportant, although, I would like to limit it to either Java or PHP. We have Java developers in house, and people are willing to learn PHP.
The administration needs to be very easy to use, because the marketing department will be doing most of the updating after the CMS is deployed. A form builder would be very useful, so that we could create forms on the fly without having to write a bunch of code. A good image management tool is also important; something that could resize and crop images on import would be useful, because these are novice users that don't have Photoshop or other tools to do image manipulation.
Joomla can do most of this, but it only supports MySQL. Anyone know of a product that actually supports Oracle or MS SQL that they would recommend?
I also took a look at TYPOlight, which looks pretty interesting. I don't think they have a huge community like Joomla does, which is important for support issues and extensibility. Though, the user interface is really nice and clean. They say they support Oracle, but I couldn’t find any instructions for setting it up in an Oracle environment.
The other thing that is somewhat important is being able to setup the CMS in an environment with a production and standby server, where if the production server were to fail the CMS could come back up on the standby server. I don’t know if any of these systems are up to that. They also need to be able to connect to a separate DB server, as all of our systems separate data and applications currently.
I have a feeling that what I am looking for costs about $15,000, which, no one is prepared to spend. Let me know if I am wrong on this one.
My main experience has been with Joomla, and it is a fairly good piece of software, but I need some input on some alternatives. Wikipedia has a list that is pretty in-depth, but, other than what language it is written in and what DB it runs on I can't tell how good of a product each one is, how big the community is, or how extensible it is.
This is going to be used for a fairly simple corporate website. The most complicated things on the site now are a couple of forms that capture information in a database and send out an email when submitted.
We do not currently support any MySQL databases, so that is one issue. It seems no one wants to take on the responsibility of supporting a new DB. It appears that every open source product supports MySQL out of the box, and other DBs are a far cry from being well supported. Even the ones on the Wikipedia list that say they support Oracle, I couldn't find any instructions on their sites on how to do the installation, which does not bode well for how it is supported.
The language is relatively unimportant, although, I would like to limit it to either Java or PHP. We have Java developers in house, and people are willing to learn PHP.
The administration needs to be very easy to use, because the marketing department will be doing most of the updating after the CMS is deployed. A form builder would be very useful, so that we could create forms on the fly without having to write a bunch of code. A good image management tool is also important; something that could resize and crop images on import would be useful, because these are novice users that don't have Photoshop or other tools to do image manipulation.
Joomla can do most of this, but it only supports MySQL. Anyone know of a product that actually supports Oracle or MS SQL that they would recommend?
I also took a look at TYPOlight, which looks pretty interesting. I don't think they have a huge community like Joomla does, which is important for support issues and extensibility. Though, the user interface is really nice and clean. They say they support Oracle, but I couldn’t find any instructions for setting it up in an Oracle environment.
The other thing that is somewhat important is being able to setup the CMS in an environment with a production and standby server, where if the production server were to fail the CMS could come back up on the standby server. I don’t know if any of these systems are up to that. They also need to be able to connect to a separate DB server, as all of our systems separate data and applications currently.
I have a feeling that what I am looking for costs about $15,000, which, no one is prepared to spend. Let me know if I am wrong on this one.
