Choosing a Content Management System (CMS)

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It is undeniable that choosing a content management system depends on a variety of criteria that depends on the scope of your project. Choosing a CMS can be a long and difficult process, especially since there is a large number of content management systems available. In Europe alone, you have around 500 systems to choose from. Some of these CMS solutions are very similar and comparing them will require taking hundreds of variables into consideration.

The good news is, whether you are looking to manage content in a large corporation, university, non-profit organization, a small business or even a government agency, there is likely a well suited Open Source CMS solution for you.

Since my decision to abandon using a wiki and find another CMS solution, I’ve reviewed over a Hundred options. I was looking for a solution that featured these characteristics:

Use the PHP platform, MySQL database, Free, GPL license, has a large community of developers actively contributing, is gaining in global support, offers multi user logins with security and group administration, works for a social networking site and allows collaboration on authoring documents, WYSIWYG, has plenty of plugins and themes, blogs, forums, wiki, newsletters, RSS feeds, image gallery, site search, SEO, allows uploading files, and utilizes a friendly administration interface. These are my requirements in a nutshell.

After a few good hours researching I’ve narrowed my search down to these solutions, they seem to fit my needs however I’m in the process of researching each of these now:

Drupal
Joomla
SilverStripe
Mambo
Typo3
Xaraya
Tikiwiki CMS/Groupware
XOOPS
Midgard CMS

If you do not need your application to be developed with PHP, you may also want to consider these good CMS options:

WebGUI
Community Server
Scoop
MindTouch dikiwiki
Alfresco Content Management
dotNet Nuke

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