Drupal vs Comercial CMS's
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Hello fellow drupalcaholics
I have an extermely big project in my pipeline which requires a competitive analysis between drupal and corporate commercial CMS's...
Has anyone contended against commercial CMS's? Where is drupal situated when compared to them (beating Joomla is trivial :) ).
I know that I will be up against vignette and websphere portal.
I'd like to create a wiki page to store what I learn in the process.
I'll start the comparison using the table I recieved from a cmsmatrix comaprison but I'm extremely interested in real life experiences and battle stories.
War stories...
Comparision...
| Product | Drupal 5.3 | Vignette CMPortalSolution Release 7 | Websphere EIP 8.1 |
| Last Updated | 10/18/2007 | 4/1/2005 | 12/6/2002 |
| System Requirements | Drupal | Vignette CMPortalSolution | Websphere EIP |
| Application Server | PHP 4.3.3+ | 4 or more | Websphere |
| Approximate Cost | Free |
10k per processor |
|
| Database | MySQL, Postgres | DB2 | |
| License | GNU GPL | Proprietary | |
| Operating System | Any | Windows XP/2000/2003 |
Windows, AIX, Solaris |
| Programming Language | PHP | Tcl | Java, C++ |
| Root Access | No | Yes | |
| Shell Access | No | Yes | |
| Web Server | Apache, IIS |
IIS |
Webshere, Apache |
| Security | Drupal | Vignette CMPortalSolution | Websphere EIP |
| Audit Trail | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Captcha | Free Add On | Yes | |
| Content Approval | Yes | Yes |
Yes |
| Email Verification | Yes | Yes | |
| Granular Privileges | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Kerberos Authentication | No | Yes | |
| LDAP Authentication | Free Add On | Yes | Yes |
| Login History | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| NIS Authentication | No | Yes | |
| NTLM Authentication | Free Add On | Yes | |
| Pluggable Authentication | Yes | Yes | Limited |
| Problem Notification | No | Yes | |
| Sandbox | No | Yes | Yes |
| Session Management | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SMB Authentication | No | Yes | |
| SSL Compatible | Yes | Yes | |
| SSL Logins | No | Yes | |
| SSL Pages | No | Yes | |
| Versioning | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Support | Drupal | Vignette CMPortalSolution | Websphere EIP |
| Certification Program | No | Yes | Yes |
| Code Skeletons | Yes | ||
| Commercial Manuals | Yes | Yes |
Yes |
| Commercial Support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Commercial Training | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Developer Community | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Online Help | Yes | No | Yes |
| Pluggable API | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Professional Hosting | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Professional Services | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Public Forum | Yes | No | Yes |
| Public Mailing List | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Test Framework | Free Add On | ||
| Third-Party Developers | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Users Conference | Yes | Yes | |
| Ease of Use | Drupal | Vignette CMPortalSolution | Websphere EIP |
| Drag-N-Drop Content | No | Yes | |
| Email To Discussion | Free Add On | Yes | Costs Extra |
| Friendly URLs | Yes | Yes | Limited |
| Image Resizing | Free Add On | Yes | |
| Macro Language | Free Add On | Yes | No |
| Mass Upload | Free Add On | Yes | |
| Prototyping | Limited | Yes | |
| Server Page Language | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Site Setup Wizard | Limited | ||
| Spell Checker | Free Add On | Yes | |
| Style Wizard | Limited | ||
| Subscriptions |
Free Add On |
Yes | |
|
Template Language |
Limited | Yes | Yes |
| UI Levels | No | Yes | No |
| Undo | Limited | Yes | |
| WYSIWYG Editor | Free Add On | Yes | Yes |
| Zip Archives | No | ||
| Performance | Drupal | Vignette CMPortalSolution | Websphere EIP |
| Advanced Caching | Yes | Yes | |
| Database Replication | Limited | Yes | |
| Load Balancing | Yes | Yes | |
| Page Caching | Yes | Yes | |
| Static Content Export | No |
Yes |
|
| Management | Drupal | Vignette CMPortalSolution | Websphere EIP |
| Advertising Management | Free Add On | Yes | No |
| Asset Management | Yes | Yes | Costs Extra |
| Clipboard | No | Yes | No |
| Content Scheduling | Free Add On | Yes | Costs Extra |
| Content Staging | Free Add On | Yes | |
| Inline Administration | Yes | Yes |
Yes |
| Online Administration | Yes | Yes | No |
| Package Deployment | No | Yes | No |
| Sub-sites / Roots | Yes | Yes | Limited |
| Themes / Skins | Yes | Yes | No |
| Trash | No | Yes | No |
| Web Statistics | Yes | Yes | No |
| Web-based Style/Template Management | Yes | Yes | Costs Extra |
| Web-based Translation Management | Yes | Yes | No |
| Workflow Engine | Limited | Yes | Costs Extra |
| Interoperability | Drupal | Vignette CMPortalSolution | Websphere EIP |
| Content Syndication (RSS) | Yes | Yes | |
| FTP Support | Limited | Yes | |
| iCal | Free Add On | ||
| UTF-8 Support | Yes | Yes | |
| WAI Compliant | Limited |
Yes |
|
| WebDAV Support |
No |
Yes | |
|
XHTML Compliant |
Yes | Yes | |
| Flexibility | Drupal | Vignette CMPortalSolution | Websphere EIP |
| CGI-mode Support | Yes | Yes |
No |
| Content Reuse | Limited | Yes | Yes |
| Extensible User Profiles | Yes | Yes | Costs Extra |
| Interface Localization | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Metadata | Yes | Yes | |
| Multi-lingual Content | Yes | Yes | |
| Multi-lingual Content Integration | Free Add On | Yes | |
| Multi-Site Deployment | Yes |
Yes |
|
| URL Rewriting |
Yes |
Yes | No |
| Built-in Applications | Drupal | Vignette CMPortalSolution | Websphere EIP |
| Blog | Yes | No | No |
| Chat | Free Add On | No | Costs Extra |
| Classifieds | Free Add On | Yes | No |
| Contact Management | Free Add On | Yes | Costs Extra |
| Data Entry | Free Add On | Yes | No |
| Database Reports | No | Yes | Costs Extra |
| Discussion / Forum | Yes | No | Costs Extra |
| Document Management | Limited | Yes | Costs Extra |
| Events Calendar | Free Add On | Yes | Costs Extra |
| Events Management | Free Add On | ||
| Expense Reports | No | Yes |
Costs Extra |
| FAQ Management | Yes | Yes | No |
| File Distribution | Free Add On | Yes | Yes |
| Graphs and Charts | No | Yes | |
| Groupware | Free Add On | Yes | Costs Extra |
| Guest Book | Free Add On | No | No |
| Help Desk / Bug Reporting | Free Add On | Yes | Costs Extra |
| HTTP Proxy | No | Yes | No |
| In/Out Board | No | Yes | |
| Job Postings | Free Add On | Yes |
No |
| Link Management | Free Add On | Yes | No |
| Mail Form | Free Add On | Yes | No |
| Matrix | No | ||
| My Page / Dashboard | Free Add On |
Yes |
Yes |
| Newsletter | Free Add On | Yes | |
| Photo Gallery | Free Add On | No |
No |
| Polls | Yes | Yes | No |
| Product Management | Free Add On | Yes | Costs Extra |
| Project Tracking | Free Add On | Yes | No |
| Search Engine | Yes | Yes | |
| Site Map | Free Add On | Yes | |
| Stock Quotes | Free Add On | ||
| Surveys | Free Add On | Yes | Costs Extra |
| Syndicated Content (RSS) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tests / Quizzes | Free Add On | No | No |
| Time Tracking | Free Add On | Yes | Costs Extra |
| User Contributions | Yes | Yes | No |
| Weather | Free Add On | ||
| Web Services Front End | No | Yes |
No |
| Wiki | Free Add On | Yes | |
| Commerce | Drupal | Vignette CMPortalSolution | Websphere EIP |
| Affiliate Tracking |
Free Add On |
No | No |
| Inventory Management | Free Add On | No | |
| Pluggable Payments | Free Add On |
No |
|
| Pluggable Shipping |
Free Add On |
No | |
|
Pluggable Tax |
Free Add On | No | |
| Point of Sale | No | No | |
| Shopping Cart | Free Add On | No | Costs Extra |
| Subscriptions | Free Add On | No | |
| Wish Lists | Free Add On | No |
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