[Catalyst] Open Source CMS

[Nicholas Wehr]

drupal and alfresco were both leading candidates after a long and expensive
"outside" evaluation that included commercial cms... drupal won in the end.
I don't think you could go wrong w/ drupal.

cheers,
-nw

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Mike Raynham <catalyst at mikeraynham.co.uk>w=
rote:

> I know that this is not a Catalyst question, but I hope to get the opinio=
ns
> of those that use Catalyst.
>
> I develop web sites for small businesses, and really like using Perl and
> Catalyst.  However, there are times when developing a custom CMS is not
> really appropriate - usually because it takes too much time (and hence
> money) to develop, and because there are lots of ready made systems out
> there already that will do the job.
>
> I've started to look into some of these systems, including Drupal and
> Bricolage.  For my sins, I have spent a lot of time working with PHP, so
> whilst I'd prefer a Perl framework, using a PHP system wouldn't really be=
 a
> problem.
>
> Drupal is looking quite interesting, and it supports Pg, which is
> definitely a bonus.
>
> Bricolage also looks good, but most of the information that I can find
> about it is now quite old - although there was a new release in February
> 2011.  Bricolage is written in Perl and it supports Pg.
>
> Does anyone have any experiences with open source CMS frameworks that they
> are able to share?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike
>
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