How To Choose An Open Source CMS

An anonymous reader writes "Content management specialist Seth Gottlieb has written an easy to understand how-to on selecting an open source CMS. Gottlieb is also responsible for the whitepaper 'Content Management Problems and Open Source Solutions' which summarizes 15 open source projects and distinguishes between open source CMS and proprietary software selection."

Comments

Avoid PHP for Web-accessible CMS installations.

[CyricZ]

I've set up several such systems for various groups people, and the one thing I've found to work best is to avoid those which use PHP. While PHP may be good for some uses, I don't think it offers the security, stability and reliability inherent for sites that must maintain a high degree of uptime.

It's quite a hassle, and very embarassing, to set up a system for somebody, only to have a security warning come out a week later. Their system needs upgrading only a week after being initially set up, and that reflects badly on whoever set it up.

As such, I've tended to go with Java-, Python-, Perl- or Ruby-based solutions, just because I feel I can trust those platforms more than I can trust PHP.