Sorry, What I meant was SilverStripe were a web company with their own CMS like so many others, but then decided to open source it unlike the others, and offered turned their significant investment in SilverStripe into a free community resource and prime contributers to. I think thats pretty cool and is going to help prevent a lot of reinvention by individual web companies. SilverStripe is one of the 3 CMS's along side Drupal and Joomla on the google summer of code, and I think thats a reflection of them being one of the 3 best opensource CMS's in the game.
The result in the case with SilverStripe is a very well designed and flexible CMS with good use of ajax, on a fresh code base.
These guys actually prepared to go open source by ensuring they finished re-writing the code base fresh, just as a business investing in the new generation of their product, then they gave it to the world.
In contrast Joomla came from Mambo as the retired version of the web company Miro's commercial Mambo product and it's still never been re-written. Ofcourse there are reasons, Joomla community has worked hard, and there are so many hacks and cool things built on it that would break and that sort of thing. But in the end we were banging our heads against the wall with core hacks after a year, SilverStripe is fresh, and is going to become an increasing choice among web businesses. Drupal, Joomla and SiverStripe are the 3 standout CMS's I think. SilverStripe are early days on 3rd party components, but this will grow, and they've got a clean base to build on.
Great to see books like this emerge around an opensource product like Drupal.
We powered our main blog on Drupal for a couple of years and found it pretty cool, and built heaps of sites in Joomla, and they're both cool, Drupal is a bit hard on non-technical end users though, but over the last 6 months we have moved over to a pretty cool AJAX filled Opensource CMS Silverstripe http://www.silverstripe.com/. Silverstripe has only been opensource for about 9 months, but its hit the OSS shelf as a clean code base which is very easy to use as its come out of a cool young web company who were sick of there being thousands of CMS's and every web company having there own.
There are definitely heaps of 3rd party modules available for Joomla and increasingly for drupal, and that was a big part of the attraction for us moving to use them, but we found in the end you find that many of them aren't quite right, they're great to get you inspired and have something to play with in 5 minutes, but projects need to be completed just right, so you often still have to develop something from scratch.
If you're into Drupal and the best open source CMS's then SilverStripe is definitely worth checking out.
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Sorry, What I meant was SilverStripe were a web company with their own CMS like so many others, but then decided to open source it unlike the others, and offered turned their significant investment in SilverStripe into a free community resource and prime contributers to. I think thats pretty cool and is going to help prevent a lot of reinvention by individual web companies. SilverStripe is one of the 3 CMS's along side Drupal and Joomla on the google summer of code, and I think thats a reflection of them being one of the 3 best opensource CMS's in the game. The result in the case with SilverStripe is a very well designed and flexible CMS with good use of ajax, on a fresh code base. These guys actually prepared to go open source by ensuring they finished re-writing the code base fresh, just as a business investing in the new generation of their product, then they gave it to the world. In contrast Joomla came from Mambo as the retired version of the web company Miro's commercial Mambo product and it's still never been re-written. Ofcourse there are reasons, Joomla community has worked hard, and there are so many hacks and cool things built on it that would break and that sort of thing. But in the end we were banging our heads against the wall with core hacks after a year, SilverStripe is fresh, and is going to become an increasing choice among web businesses. Drupal, Joomla and SiverStripe are the 3 standout CMS's I think. SilverStripe are early days on 3rd party components, but this will grow, and they've got a clean base to build on.
Great to see books like this emerge around an opensource product like Drupal. We powered our main blog on Drupal for a couple of years and found it pretty cool, and built heaps of sites in Joomla, and they're both cool, Drupal is a bit hard on non-technical end users though, but over the last 6 months we have moved over to a pretty cool AJAX filled Opensource CMS Silverstripe http://www.silverstripe.com/. Silverstripe has only been opensource for about 9 months, but its hit the OSS shelf as a clean code base which is very easy to use as its come out of a cool young web company who were sick of there being thousands of CMS's and every web company having there own.
There are definitely heaps of 3rd party modules available for Joomla and increasingly for drupal, and that was a big part of the attraction for us moving to use them, but we found in the end you find that many of them aren't quite right, they're great to get you inspired and have something to play with in 5 minutes, but projects need to be completed just right, so you often still have to develop something from scratch.
If you're into Drupal and the best open source CMS's then SilverStripe is definitely worth checking out.