Matthew Bull

web development

Hooked into Drupal

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

In my last blog I mentioned how Drupal really does seem to offer more than just the ability to get a simple site up and running quickly. Framework When you look at Drupal more closely you realise one key thing: it's not really a CMS, it's a framework. Granted, nothing quite like Symfony in terms of ...

Drupal as an enterprise CMS?

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

  I've been looking a lot recently at Drupal not just as an open source CMS, but as a viable enterprise level CMS. Despite my earlier misgivings I think Drupal has a lot going for it, and it may be that over the next couple of years it will become a ...

MySource Matrix and Squiz

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

I've been looking recently at an open source enterprise CMS called MySource Matrix. It's written in PHP5, and unusually for open source CMS actually seems to be able to cope well at enterprise level. It's built from the ground up on an asset basis. Everything is an asset: users, content, permissions, ...

Open Source CMS?

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

At the moment at Kent we're considering our options for CMS. We've been looking at enterprise CMS, and had a few fairly impressive demos of their capabilities. But at the end of one demo, someone asked the sales guy why we should pay almost double the price for a licence than ...