Posted by winner66-gdo on April 6, 2008 at 9:05pm
I'm interested in developing a CMS where to migrate my school web site. So far, I've tried Joomla and I was very satisfied with the look and the functions I was testing. But now I have just found this group who seem to be exclusively devoted to educational issues within Drupal.
I know, I know.. if you all are here that's because you already made your decision. But how could I be definitively convinced to make mine? Any objective criteria out there? What's for Drupal which is not for Joomla?
Thanks in advance.
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Well you're certainly right about objectivity...
Well, I haven't used Joomla so I won't comment as to my direct experience with it. I've herd that it's not as powerful as Drupal from an architecture standpoint and that developing modules isn't nearly as clean (just hearsay, can't really attest to it personally). I have two articles you can look at for objectivity, the first one is IBM's open source development initatives and they give justification for using Drupal over some others. Joomla isn't included by Mambo is and I believe joomla is built off the mambo core. (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-osource1/ )
The second is a listing of feature comparisons between any / ALL open source projects out there. It's entirely feature based and updated regularly (http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix/cms-matrix ).
I can't compare to much but this is why we chose drupal over other systems out there: (not in any specific order)
1. Flexibility / power of the framework
2. Community size (It ain't going away any time soon and it's only getting bigger! Double in size from 5 to 6 in terms of downloads and contrib)
3. I already knew it and had built some small modules in it
4. Boss said go open source so we did
5. Version 5's maturity and external support in modules and themes from the community seemed to trump anything I had ever seen.
Hope this helps in your decision. I'd recommend Drupal :-)
Ex Uno Plures
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http://drupal.psu.edu/
Compare Drupal and Joomla
Here's a good website that lets you compare various CMS systems - including some proprietary systems - http://www.cmsmatrix.org/
We do open source for K-12 and our general guideline is - the best is Drupal, but if you're only looking at static pages with very little updates, Wordpress might be better. If you're going to be only posting news articles with not a lot of content management with classroom sites and metadata, then Joomla! might be a bit better.
HTH
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