Re: [libreoffice-website] [SC] Decision about CMS

Good luck with silver stripe

We grow beautiful ideas

On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Graham Lauder <yorick_@openoffice.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 19 Oct 2010 12:39:56 Keith Williams wrote:
> > My opinion...
> >
> > Basically the only person that seems to want silverstripe is Christian.  I
> > think there are 3-4 people here that like Drupal in this group.
>
> Add one to Christians Group,
>
> I tried your demo and I also tried the Silverstripe demo.  The silverstripe
> interface is pretty intuitive I was changing permissions, adding users and
> groups in no time.  Excellent
>
> The Drupal Demo, I figured adding groups, couldn't figure how to manage users
> or permissions and managed to post content
>
> I did a comparison on Compare between Silverstripe and Drupal and while there
> were swings and roundabouts, the significant difference was that most of
> Drupals functionality seemed to come from addons or plugins and I couldn't see
> any easy way of installing said plugins..
>
> On the strength of the above I would go with Silverstripe.
>
> However in addition to that:
>
> Christian has a long history with the project and that does give his opinion
> some gravitas especially given he will be responsible for the CMS in the end.
>
> The kicker for me though is that at some point in any OSS project roles change
> or people get added to teams for this sort of admin.  The number of admins
> will expand quickly for all the various projects and the faster they are up to
> speed on any CMS, the better.  To me Silverstripe wins this hands down.
>
> So I'm in the Silverstripe camp.
>
> Cheers
> GL
>
>
>
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