Content Management Systems (CMS)

[nathan r. hruby]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Bryan D. Brown wrote:

> Hello all:
> 
> Does anyone have any experiences with CMS' on YDL?
> 

On YDL specificly?  No, but how it different from any other unix? :)

You mention 2 possibilites, but there are a lot more out there.  Go see
http://www.cmsinfo.org/ and look around.

Also, cms-list.org has a cms related mailing lsit where this questions
gets asked alot.  Searching it's flimsy archives (use google to find the
several different ones) will reveal some terrific threads about figuring
out what you need before looks at solutions.

Generally, I'd say evaluate like this:
- How much money do you have to spend? (You'll need to spend something, 
  either in hardware, devlopment/training time, license fees, etc.. 
  nothing in the world is free, but you may not have to spend money)

- What exactly are you doing and How heavily are you relying on this?

- Of the maintainers of said CMS, will they be around for a long 
  time/short time?  What languages do they know?  (can they program / are 
  they willing? :)

- What about your current systems?  Are you migrating wholehog or are you 
  looking for something you can drop in to your environemnt and jsut have 
  it work?

Think about that, look at stuff (most FOSS CMS's have a demo site you can 
play with, minimmaly their own site runs their software :) and see what 
'feels' right.  CMS specing seems to be a lot like getting a laptop - 
it's a farily tactile and personal experince...

-n
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