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I really like http://www.typo3.com/TYPO3 (based on PHP5). Fast, feature-rich (but not bloated imo) with a good user base. Extensions help with stuff you might need or, at least, coding examples. Oh, and has been here for like 8 years or something if I remember correctly.

Typo3 is quite possibly exactly what you are looking for. It is enterprise-grade quality, it was designed to be multilingual from day one, it has a sophisticated caching system and check out TemplaVoila for templating/theming (the video is very short and may not give you a sense of its power). Security awareness has gone up recently as extensions are now audited for security holes.

A quick overview of features and tutorial videos may help you get a feel for what Typo3 can offer in a CMS.

As with most things, the more power and flexibility you have the steeper the learning curve and Typo3 is no exception.

As you already use the Drupal CMS you probably don't want to switch to another CMS. However if you do, you may want to take a look at these other options:

* http://www.mmbase.org/
* http://typo3.com/

Both are open source packages, and both are very feature rich. I also believe both offer some form of work flow management.
I'm not sure because during my evaluation I noticed both packages had too many features for my use. I ended up using Drupal.

Well, the CMS I've been missing here so far is Typo3. I think its safe to say its aimed at enterprise level due to its extreme versatility. There is hardly nothing you can't do. If you wish to code your website then its possible; Typo3 uses typoscript which allows you to do just about anything. Loops, if/then, variables, you name it. But ofcourse you can also html based templates to set something up, nothing stopping you there. And the best part, in my opinion ofcourse, it can appeal to everyone. An enduser/customer will happily use the build-in enhanced editor to add a piece of text to his page, while a more technical aimed person is bound to like the option to add whole HTML/XML snipplets into the page.

All in all, I think this is the best around as it adresses many problems and offers many solutions. And well, its modular build and expansion options are great too. You can find documentation as well as the download options here.

Some big names using it (Volkswagen, DHL, General Electric, Stanford)
http://typo3.com/Customers.1229.0.html

Features:
http://typo3.com/Feature_list.1243.0.html

Some big names using it (Volkswagen, DHL, General Electric, Stanford)
http://typo3.com/Customers.1229.0.html

Features:
http://typo3.com/Feature_list.1243.0.html

There are thousands of free cms avaiable, and many of them would match the few points you give.
try http://typo3.com/ or better:
look at http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ and compare them yourself.
Plone, which was mentioned before, is worth a look too.

I don't know where you are (or where your head is at), but it isn't in reality. There are a lot of very professional companies that use a complete OSS software stack (not just OSS but FREE too!!). Example: Apache 2.x is the #1 web server on the internet (Netcraft is keeping score) with 3.5 times as many users as the bug-ridden microsoft IIS, second MySQL serves as a very powerful back-end (NASA seemed to think so), next run it on Linux with PHP. For content there are a number of sources, but TYPO3 seems one of the best (Daimler-Chrysler, 3M, Volkswagen, GE and others seem to find it as their site content-management system of choice), see: http://www.typo3.com/Customers.1229.0.htm. I don't know where the words "non-professional, or not adequate come from, seems a bit bizarre actually!

• ClamAV virus definition distribution model (use of incremental updates, dns txt field checks for new updates, automatic, etc..) -- compare this to the weekly (!) updates of Symantec (or manually updating slightly more frequently) or even some of the "download a big chunk from a centralized location" method of commercial competitors.
• BitTorrent
• So many things in KDE its insane.. (just check out all the awards, including Software Innovation of the Year - CeBit!)
• Plone, Zope, Typo3 - These content management systems lead the way for both commercial and opensource.. so much innovation going on here
• CUPS - While not glamerous, I have setup lots of print servers and the flexibility and modularlity of CUPS (in my experience) is unmatched.
• The spam fighters: greylisting, spamassassin, amavisd, postfix, dnsrbl, etc.. developed under or made popular due to opensource.. I have yet to come across _any_ non-FOSS solution that comes close to the success and accuracy of the OSS tools for spam filtering

At the risk of turning this into a CMS flamefest, you should check out Drupal (http://drupal.org/). Not only is it a top-of-the-line Open Source CMS, but customizing it and creating your own modules is more straight-forward and more powerful than with Mambo. Mambo gives you a better package out of the box, though, as long as you're trying to build a site that it comes pre-configured to handle.

Drupal is the base for spreadfirefox.com as well as many other sites. It's a great base from which to build many things.

And while we're on the subject, no discussion about OSS CMS is complete without mentioning Typo3 (http://www.typo3.com/). It's extremely powerful and entirely too complex for most people. If you want ultimate flexibility and are willing to work, Typo3 is probably the best solution around. Just be prepared to spend a couple months learning how to make it do what you want.

You can try Mambo or Typo3. They are both great.

But before making a decision, you can check OpenSourceCMS for demo of diferent CMS'. Another great comparison site is CMSMatrix

In my not so humble opinion, if you want a full featured and supported open source CMS get typo3.

They have freaking instructional videos for $DEITIES sake.

Marketing page:
http://www.typo3.com/

Community pages.
http://www.typo3.org/

smeat!

For an extremely easy and streamlined CRM solution that works alot like Wiki's, I've recently been pointed to Typo3.

I'm not sure if it has WikiWiki-words, but that's not so important to me as it is for projects like wikipedia or wiktionary. For normal use, WikiWords are just confusing to regular people.

Typo3 is fully user-editable from the browser, with authorisations and fine-tuned privileges. It even has real WYSIWYG editing (IE only for now, otherwise there are some tags). It is GPL, open source, documentation in Open Office format.

I'm perhaps not the right person to advertise this project, as I've only tested their demo. But after having messed around with pmWiki, TWiki, checking out TikiWiki and others, I can safely say that Typo3 is the best free as in speech solution for a WYSIWYG CRM I've encountered. Forget teaching people to use tags, only programmers will do them. WYSIWYG is where the real Wiki revolution will come.

Of course, finding the right tool for the job may mean another tool is better suited to your unique needs.. E.g pmWiki works for me now, since I don't want to pay for hosting and mess with databases.

This guy created a full CMS almost alone! Looks at the Features list !

Plone is not the only one open source CMS around. Tikiwiki, Typo3,Drupal and a lot more are open source, some even with commercial support (i.e. Typo3, comparing with it could be a bit more fair) if eWeek want that "feature" over every other possible functionality they could have.

The problem is that a lot of otherweise nice stuff (like this) or this makes use of MySQL and nothing else. No Postgres, no Oracle.
Is there a way around this type of mess? A good CMS that will work with Postgres?

Do you think this is the right place to spam for a crappy ASP-script?

Do you think anyone in their right mind would only remotely consider to use your ridiculous little ASP script for anything?
Dude, this is slashdot. Nobody wants your ASP crap. And nobody will pay you $50 for it.
We can have better for free.

Do you think this is the right place to spam for a crappy ASP-script?

Do you think anyone in their right mind would only remotely consider to use your ridiculous little ASP script for anything?
Dude, this is slashdot. Nobody wants your ASP crap. And nobody will pay you $50 for it.
We can have better for free.

So no GIF support in the GD library for another year. :-(

It depends also on web-site design and content presentation. Content presentation depends on CMS. Another question was raised: Can independent Content Management Solution developers survive? Meaning CMS like Typo3, Managee, ezPublish that is not like phpNuke, postNuke and brothers. You may think everything you want, but Content Management tools are very important!

I work for a mid sized company but I know the web site is very out of date and has incredibly poor content. In my mind I can pinpoint this to one thing. The inability for the people who write content to get it to the site.

I know for fact there is more than enough good stories and photographs in the organization that can be published but most of the technicians who would write it (or at least the first draft) don't have the time to learn a web design program. The solution I believe is a good content management system. I've been looking into Typo3 and a couple of other content management systems. I believe once we make it easy to update then content will be less likely to be obselete.

Content Management Systems are right now the best place I can start introducing open source software at my work. We've looked at Microsoft's Content Management Server which is highly over priced for our needs and its hard to argue with the documentation and self-help community that open source software provides. I know there are other content management systems out there but the point is that for content to stay current publishing capabilities must be pushed to the people who will author it.

• Navigational menus are automatically created - even if the menu is made graphically - perhaps even with background-images, dropshadows on text and roll-over effects!
• Images uploaded and used on pages are automatically scaled to the correct size (no HTML-scaling!) and stored on the server with a minimum filesize. Even non-web image-formats can be used! (TIF, AI, PDF, PCX and more). And you can without further knowledge just upload your digital-camera pictures and they'll be scaled automatically.
• Headlines and other graphical elements with shifting content is also automatically generated.
• You can differenciate the website-design by creating variations in the templates based on the client browser, IP-number or number-range, operating system, countrycodes, userchosen parameters eg. printing-friendly versions of no-frames versions.You can have multiple templates on a site.
• Pages can be timed to be shown on a certain date, be hidden on a certain date or just temporarily hidden.
• Typo3 has a build-in password-protecting option on the pages. Thereby protected pages are only visible for users from a certain usergroup.
• Typo3 supports search in SQL-databases.
• Redesigning of a website at once is a question of creating one single new template.