Hello Phil, I'd be surprised if Drupal was any more complicated than any of the others you listed.
Also, I agree with you very strongly that proprietary is a huge downside (a show stopper, in my opinion, given that the quality of the open source options makes all the proprietary options I'm aware of pale in comparison). Think about things like setting up development instances/sandboxes, transfering sites between hosts, etc. All of those things are only possible if you're not having to worry about license keys, etc. To me, proprietary is total handicap in the web world. Dave Phil Dodd wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. Thanks also to the others who posted. I guess > my shortlist is now: > > * Drupal - seems to have modules to do everything I want, but I'm a > little daunted by the complexity. > * Expression engine - looks sweet, the proprietary aspect is a downside. > I've posted some questions on the forums, and will see how quick/helpful > the responses are. > * Silverstripe - I like the MVC framework, and the backend interface is > nice. I'm a little worried about how it will handle large amounts of > content - we have an archive of roughly 10,000 posts to add, and I > expect our writers to add 3 - 4 posts a day to the system. How does the > back end handle this kind of volume? > * Textpattern - I don't really know anything about this - looking > forward to investigating. -- Dave Lane = Egressive Ltd = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = m: +64 21 229 8147 p: +64 3 9633733 = Linux: it just tastes better = nosoftwarepatents http://egressive.com ==== we only use open standards: http://w3.org Effusion Group Founding Member =========== http://effusiongroup.com ************************************************************** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **************************************************************
