created on 周二, 2004-09-14 12:28

Dmitirios Michelinakis reviewed 7 open source CMSs, and Drupal came in second after Typo3. Read the whole report for the evaluation criteria and a good overview of all the systems. Here is a table that summarizes the points for each system:

CMS Average Score (out of 10) Typo3 7.6 Drupal 6.7 Mambo Open Source 5.7 phpWebSite 5.5 Xaraya 5.3 Xoops 4.1 PostNuke 3.7

The report is generally correct. I don't understand some of the scoring, for example this phrase:

Unfortunately, data storage is table-based with data being stored based on their type, so there is no XML storage.

Huh? I guess there are hosting platforms that don't include a database, but I honestly don't think this would be a large expense for any business. And what benefits does XML storage offer over a database? (or maye they mean exporting to XML...whatever, I'm confused about this one).

(I wasn't going to go through and pick everything apart, but I may as well...)

Metadata content classification is not available in Drupal, thus content can not be classified this way, or imported from a metadata-compatible source

Well, there is a nodekeywords module, which isn't fully hooked into an implementation that edits metatags at this point, but everyone knows that metadata no longer affects search engine ranking. And of course, Drupal's ability to tag different content types with different taxonomies is probably much more powerful than a metadata system.

Support for 3rd party authentication mechanisms is limited to sources like other web sites or an LDAP server

Technically this is correct, but don't forget about Webserver Auth! You can then authenticate against any source that can pass authentication through your webserver. And the LDAP authentication can hook into Microsoft Active Directory.

If search engine optimization, blogging, and aggregation had been part of the evaluation criteria (which I believe they should for any community or business), Drupal would have won hands down. I've used Typo3, and it certainly is a capable CMS system. As I say to those from a blogging backround, Drupal is blogging++. For the CMS world, Drupal is CMS++.