ISCB-SC:Website:CMS Comparison Table
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About this document
This document is an appendix of ISCB-SC:Website.
WCT team members, please add functional and non-functional requirements from ISCB-SC:Website:Requirements to the comparison table.
We could make a judged decision on CMS software then.
WCT team members responsible for CMS comparison:
- Alexander
- Thomas
- Abhishek
- (add your name here)
Trial/Evaluation installations
Playgrounds:
- Drupal (maintained by Thomas)
- Joomla 1.5 (maintained by Alexander)
Should we have minimum requirements for the playgrounds? As a basis to test?
- a forum that uses the same login credential as the login for the web site
- some basic content, copied from the current iscb site to play with
- 4 groups of users:
- anonymous, can only read content
- authenticated, can post in the forum
- sc-leader, can add and edit content on the main site
- admin, can modify all content of the site, can change the layout of the site.
Comparison Table
| Requirement | Importance (0--5) | Drupal | Joomla 1.5 | Plone (?) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granular permissions system | 5 | yes, full ACL control | no, you have different admin levels, but it is level based and except from contributing content you can give very little rights to users. | |
| WYSIWYG content editor | 3 | yes (both have exactly the same WYSIWYG editors available) | yes | |
| Integration with LDAP or other login systems | 3 | Drupal has it's own centralized login system, but can also work with ldap or openID. | LDAP and openID only for Joomla 1.0.x, centralized login support is only commercially available | |
| Exhaustive and concise documentation | 5 | yes, even more than Joomla | yes | |
| SEO optimization out of the box (clean urls, meta tags, keywords, page description, etc.) | 3 | yes | no | |
| Extensive, clean mechanism for extensions | 3 | yes | no | |
| Additional modules (calendar, chat, paper submission, polls, etc. ) | 4 | yes, plenty and well maintained | yes, lots for Joomla 1.0.x, but far less for 1.5.x and not easy to upgrade | |
| Integrated forum | 5 | yes | no | |
| Secure | 5++ | yes | yes, but has some holes that allow the installation of a php shell on your server. | |
| Elected by the ISCB | 1 | no | yes |
Discussion
Other week/strong points not included into the comparison table should be discussed here.
- (+Joomla) Joomla 1.5 is the choice of ISCB for the new ISCB portal. With the integration and possible portal merging in the future, I find it a very strong point --Alexander
- As you stated on the other pages, merging is not straighforward, even when using the same sofware. Using the same software does not ease the transition, so I do not agree that the ISCB's choice is a strong point. I think we should find out why ISCB picked Joomla. Maybe those reasons are a strong point, but the choice on its own says very little. --Thomas Abeel
- (+Joomla) Joomla! 2006 Open Source CMS Award Winner --Alexander
- (~Joomla) (~Drupal) This should really be place in perspective. From the website of the company that gave the award: "The final result, as voted for by judges from The Open Source Collective, MySQL, the Eclipse Foundation, and 16,000 users on www.PacktPub.com saw a tie for first place between Joomla! and Drupal. In the event of a tie, a fourth independent judge would be brought in. This was Apoorv Durga who is a member of CM Pros and runs his own blog [1] on portals and content management. This crucial vote ended up with Joomla! triumphing over Drupal by one point." From that I gather that the margin is actually quite small and that we should look at what functionality we need and which CMS offers those features. --Thomas Abeel
- I should also mention that 2006 was so far the only year the award was given and the voting process is not transparant. And the company (it is a company, not some big organization) that gave the award is a recently (2004) started publishing company. For the 2007 award, the finalists are Elgg, Drupal, Moodle, LifeType and Wordpress, but Joomla is nowhere to be seen this year.
- (~Joomla) (~Drupal) This should really be place in perspective. From the website of the company that gave the award: "The final result, as voted for by judges from The Open Source Collective, MySQL, the Eclipse Foundation, and 16,000 users on www.PacktPub.com saw a tie for first place between Joomla! and Drupal. In the event of a tie, a fourth independent judge would be brought in. This was Apoorv Durga who is a member of CM Pros and runs his own blog [1] on portals and content management. This crucial vote ended up with Joomla! triumphing over Drupal by one point." From that I gather that the margin is actually quite small and that we should look at what functionality we need and which CMS offers those features. --Thomas Abeel
- (-Joomla) (+Drupal) Have a look at some other overviews of the strenghts and weaknesses of both Joomla and Drupal. [2] [3] Using the current list of requirement we really need Drupal for the fine-grained access right alone. --Thomas Abeel
Comparison Results
When comparison table is discussion is complete, WCT should have a voting.
Total votes:
- Drupal: tbd
- Joomla 1.5: tbd
- reserved (Plone): tbd
CMS selected: tbd
