[SATLUG] Have any of you heard of this?

[Hector Bojorquez]

My .02

Joomla/Mambo are prettygood pieces of software...Extendability is simple...
and hacking the core is not brain surgery if you just take some time to read
the documentation...AND DOCUMENT YOUR HACKS!

All security issues that I've seen are related to not being vigilant on
updates , or not reading your logs, or screwing up initial LAMP setup (which
is very easy to screw up--- the documentation is out there to secure it but
most don't take the time to read it....REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU CHOOSE...CHECK
YOUR WEB SERVER INSTALLATION....)... The very cool thing about Joomla/Mambo
is the huge worldwide community of users and developers. They are not
fanatics... they are pragmatists (for the most part) and love to get the job
done.  But what I really love about Joomla/Mambo is that it runs on MySql
(you can hack it to use other DBMSs)  and the developers are using fairly
easy to understand business logic and table design.

After a few months of dealing with Microsoft's Sharepoint, I can tell
you...it's nice when you can run simple queries without resorting to using a
propietary querying language ...or doing crazy client side hacks to simply
get a user's name, or having to compile "web parts" for simple
processes...God bless Open Source!

Plone is nice and solid....but for the average geek, customization has a
steep learning curve.
I'm sure Justinz  will chime in and vouch for its performance and security
history.




On 1/23/07, tom weeks <tweeksjunk2 at theweeks.org> wrote:
>
> On Monday 22 January 2007 22:04, Thomas King wrote:
> > > I came across a software package called "Drupal" - it's an open source
> > > content management platform (see http://drupal.org/).  We actually
> have a
> > > need for something like this at my job, and I was wondering if anyone
> in
> > > the group had any experience or knowledge about it.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > Our purchasing department is reviewing Drupal for our content management
> > system since it'd be easier for our management to update the pages, plus
> it
> > has a good lot of modules.
>
> Some of our intra-sites at Rackspace use it internally.
>
> It's nice.. Another Admin and I are the "geeks behind the curtain"... but
> after Drupal is set up, we can just let the HR and other office types to
> update their own content.  We even use it to serve company flash-video
> content and frame wrap a google-mini appliance to search for company wide
> content (all the other dept. portals, CMS', wikis and knowledge management
> systems).  Even though it has a kick butt little blog module.. it's RSS
> aggregator even allows us to collect and centralize all the various
> divergent
> company wide blogs under one centralized site.  In short.. I like
> it.  Much
> more simple to set up than Zope/Plone (at least than zope/plone of 2005..
> maybe it's easier now... constructive comments welcome Justinz).
>
>
> > There are others on this list that seem to live by Zope/Plone. Just
> using
> > the CMS function is kind of complex but very powerful. I know that the
> > governor's website and the Texas Building and Procurement Commission use
> > Plone.
>
> I get the feeling that zope/plone is more solid and "deep" by
> design.  Seems
> very solid.  But I really like the simple, quick, easy and flexible nature
> of
> Drupal.  Check check out the hundreds of modules out there for it:
>
>
> I gave an IEEE presentation in October on open source CMS, Blogs and
> Wikis..
> for CMS', Joomla and Drupal were about tied for first.. with Zope/Plone in
> a
> close second.
>
> >
> > You might be interested in looking at a huge list of CMS's at
> > http://www.cmsmatrix.org/.
>
> Cool site... nice rating system..
> But if you want to actually TEST DRIVE them all.. then check out
> Opensourcecms.com.  I've used time and time again:
>        http://opensourcecms.com/
>
> On line demos of tons of CMS and other web-app-suites.
>
> Tweeks
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