plone vs drupal at Greenpeace UK
Dylan Jay
gmane at dylanjay.com
Wed Apr 9 17:39:52 UTC 2008
Martin Aspeli wrote:
> Jon Stahl wrote:
>> Thought y'all might be interested to see the results of GPs' recent
>> evaluation of Plone vs. Drupal (vs Planet2, an in-house OpenACS
>> solution).
>>
>> http://importantprojects.com/archives/000084.php
>>
>> Plone lost narrowly to Drupal. I offered some extensive comments to
>> Rob Purdie, who ran the process (and is a friend). I think they
>> misjudged Plone on a few key points, my comments on those are below.
>
> So do I :)
>
>> Nonetheless, their requirements are a VERY interesting read to get a
>> sense of what a typical large NGO might be looking for in a CMS.
>>
>> Also it's interesting to note how hard the Drupal community worked
>> this process:
>> http://groups.drupal.org/node/411
>> http://groups.drupal.org/node/458
>
> Love those URLs :)
>
> What's interesting is that we didn't know about this. I'd have loved to
> have a discussion with them on plone-users or IRC, but I guess they
> never went there. That's a pity, given some of their (probably
> understandable) misconceptions.
Notice they have a Drupal marketing group.
I'm going to be doing things about plone marketing in australia. Drupal
and Joomla are much larger here. Where do I go to find out the best ways
of doing that?
We're leaving the marketing to the integrators it seems.
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