CMS: weapon of choice

IBM software engineers wrote an article last week, titled "Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site". Though drawing my attention, I found the headline a bit misleading--what they are actually writing about, is an in-depth review of several Content-Management-Systems...
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CMS: die Waffe der Wahl
IBM-Entwickler haben letzte Woche einen Artikel online gestellt mit dem Titel "Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site". Während ich den Titel aus beruflichen Gründen interessant fand, entpuppte sich der Artikel dann als detaillierter Überblick über diverse Content-Management-Systeme.
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"Mambo was very appealing from the ease of install and the UI, but the development track at the time was fractured and didn't give us any confidence of support.
Typo3 seemed to have a huge community and the maturity we were looking for. However, the learning curve for using Typo3 is daunting in comparison to Drupal.
We did have to invest some time to learn the Drupal way, and the framework just seemed to make sense. We also felt that Drupal provided the right combination of framework and flexibility to break out of the framework when needed to get the job done. With all things considered, we decided to use Drupal."

So Drupal is IBM's recommendation--they follow up with some details in deploying Drupal.
Very interesting reading to me. Some weeks ago, my friend Sascha in Hong Kong ever asked me on my opinion on how the internet is going to evolve in the next 5 years: We will see much more use of Content-Management- and Blogging-Engines--and new web-based solutions like Google's pagemaker and Microsoft's Office Live. I guess the "classic" job of programming websites will loose more and more ground over the next years. Knowing more about CMS will likewise get more important.

If you skipped the IBM article because of its title, go and check it out.

"Mambo was very appealing from the ease of install and the UI, but the development track at the time was fractured and didn't give us any confidence of support.
Typo3 seemed to have a huge community and the maturity we were looking for. However, the learning curve for using Typo3 is daunting in comparison to Drupal.
We did have to invest some time to learn the Drupal way, and the framework just seemed to make sense. We also felt that Drupal provided the right combination of framework and flexibility to break out of the framework when needed to get the job done. With all things considered, we decided to use Drupal."

Drupal ist also IBMs Empfehlung, die Autoren beschreiben dann Details über den Einsatz von Drupal. Sehr interessant. Vor einigen Wochen hat mein Freund Sascha in Hong Kong mich gefragt, wie meiner Meinung nach das Internet in 5 Jahren aussehen wird: wir werden wohl in noch größerem Umfang den Einsatz von Content-Management- und Blogging-Engines sehen, wie auch webbasierte Lösungen wie Googles Webeditor und Microsoft Office Live. Die "klassische" Arbeit, Websites für Kunden zu gestalten und zu programmieren wird über die nächsten Jahre mehr und mehr an Bedeutung verlieren, während Know-How im Bereich CMS immer wichtiger werden wird.

Wenn ihr den IBM-Artikel aufgrund seines Titels verpasst habt, dann lest ihn nach dem Sprung.

:) < Lutz