The answer to your question has the potential to be quite long. In my experience, here (in no particular order) are a few of the top reasons why companies and organizations choose RedDot over Drupal:
1. RedDot demos very, very well. Drupal's content entry is all form-based so it takes some work to understand it. When users see SmartEdit for the first time with the little red dots all over the page indicating content fields, they just get it (or at least think that they do). 2. Workflow. Drupal's support for complex organizational workflows is dismal, even with the available workflow modules. As far as I know, once a page has been published in Drupal, any changes you make to that page go live immediately. This is unacceptable in many organizations that require content be reviewed before going live. 3. Upgrade path. Drupal makes no secret of the fact that new major versions will break backwards compatibility. Moving to the latest and greatest version has historically been a nightmare (especially if you depend on a lot of modules that need to be updated, which is practically impossible to avoid with Drupal), and there's no reason to think that future versions will make this process much easier. 4. WYSIWYG. Drupal requires modules in order to use a WYSIWYG editor for your content. The available editors also don't integrate as nicely with the CMS as RedDot's does. For instance, there's no page selection dialog when you try to insert a link. You have to manually copy and paste the URL in there. 5. Asset Management. RedDot's asset manager drives me crazy sometimes, but at least it *has* an asset manager. Drupal provides nothing like that and it makes file management a difficult experience. I have heard that this is expected to be fixed in Drupal 7. That being said, I do think that Drupal does a lot of things well and have used it myself successfully. But there are a lot of reasons to pick RedDot over it. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Jo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any comparison for reddot CMS with Drupal ? What is the > advantage/disadvantage of RedDot cms over Drupal, a free open > source!! ? I just had the Drupal training. I felt that it is much > powerfull and lots of functionalities.And for everything there is a > module !! But I cannt make sure when companies choose for a expensive > cms over the freeware ?Appreciate more opinions please... > > Jo. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RedDot CMS Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<reddot-cms-users%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en.
