[Web4lib] Nice Overview/Comparison of CMSs: Joomla, Drupal, Plone

[Mark Jordan]

One thing from the article I would comment on is the claim that "Drupal 
offers deeply integrated (but often less powerful) plug-ins for many 
[tasks not core to a CMS]", instead of integrating best-of-breed 
external applications.  Not sure why they claim that when there are (as 
of today) 155 modules in  the "3rd party integration" category listed at 
http://drupal.org/project/Modules -- the second largest category after 
the miscellaneous "Utility". Third party apps most web admins would 
recognize inclue Amazon associate tools, CAS, ChipIn, CPanel, Creative 
Commons, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, etc.

It is true that in many cases someone will contribute a module that 
replicates functionality available in an external application, but I 
think that's a testament to the sophistication of Drupal's module and 
hook systems, which allow developers to add functionality without 
touching Drupal's core code.

Mark

Darci Hanning wrote:
> Greetings everyone!
> 
> I thought this article did a good job of comparing three main OSS CMS applications: Joomla, Drupal, and Plone. I'm most familiar with Plone and would agree overall with the assessment of Plone in this article.
> 
> http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/webbuilding/page6047.cfm
> 
> Others who are more familiar with Joomla and Drupal may like to comment as well on the article...
> 
> Cheers,
> Darci
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