Posts Tagged ‘ open source ’
Finally, after much holding of breath and anticipation, Wordpress 2.7 and its swanky interface comes to MU-world. Yay! As is typical with the quasi-underground nature of Wordpress MU, version 2.7 wasn’t so much announced as… became apparent. ie. if you happened to download it you’d find the version number was different. A Wordpress MU forum thread showed [ READ MORE ]
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 its level of sophistication, but [ READ MORE ]
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 much bigger force in the [ READ MORE ]
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, workflow. The whole lot. This [ READ MORE ]
You can spend a lot of money on buying a licensed CMS. And then spend a lot more money on support for that product. Or you can get something for free, and spend the money you would have spent on support... on support. Does that sound ridiculously obvious? Few institutions and companies (curiously) feel comfortable with the thought that a free product could ever be as good as an expensive one, even though all the evidence is beginning to suggest quite the contrary is true[ READ MORE ]