By nyquist on

Can anyone direct me to a function and feature comaprison between the most popular content management systems? Particularly stability and maturity? Perhaps a comparison between available blocks and nodes too? Where could I learn more about their architectures and relative merits?.. without having to download, install and test each one...

My Drupal's up and running (except for those *damn* news feeds) and I'm quite happy but would like to be able to justify my choice Only local images are allowed.

TIA

C.W.

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kika’s picture

kika commented

There's a start to create a comparision between Drupal and other CMSes
http://www.drupal.org/node.php?id=381
Unfortunately it's not even half complete and PHP/PostNuke systems are missing.

Another link to check is http://www.urldir.com/bt/full.php

IHMO such tables often consist errors (for example Drupal _do_ support IP banning) and act rather as a marketing tool, they do not give you a in-depth knowledge about systems.

A more comprehensive comparison reviews are needed in order to help users to choose. Something along the lines of Blogger vs Radio, Radio vs. Movable Type.

Anonymous’s picture

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I agree! I did those blog-tool comparisons and I think drupal, postnuke, php-nuke, slash, and scoop all need to be compared head-to-head. The huge tables are too hard for me to read and comprehend. What's best is help with a decision tree. With the blog tools it would be things like "do you have your own hosting server?" "do you want to control your own data?" "do you want to be able to access your blog entry form from anywhere on the web?" etc.

With these community tools the questions would be different. So, obviously it's beyond me as a nonexpert to do these comparisons, but I can encourage people and promise to link to or help edit articles like that. They don't even have to be too long. Shorter is better in some ways, up to a point.

xian - http://ezone.org/xian/

Anonymous’s picture

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i found this...
http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/blogware.htm