Keith, This discussion should not become an endurance challenge, where whoever holds out the longest wins. That's no way to make a good technical decision.
On Oct 19, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Keith Williams wrote: > Ok. You win, go with Silverstripe, it appears that you already have > made that decision and I don't have the time to devote to this > discussion, since I will not be working with Silverstripe. I really > did look into Silverstripe and the reason you find it clear is that it > doesn't do much and I didn't find it very flexible. I think this is important to note. Silverstripe looks good with no effort, and when has been the case with software I've worked with in the past, it's because the software is not flexible. Perhaps we should set a higher bar for the demo. Keith, can you look at the requirements wiki page and add details about ad hoc group creation and other features you suggest the site should have to support our globally active groups? I think this has not been addressed in Christian's initial requirements list: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Website/Evaluation_of_CMS_Platforms > > The views query builder and the content construction kit for drupal > are absolutely amazing. You need a real site builder demo to > understand that. They are far and away one of the most impressive > things I've ever used in an online system, dare I say they are > revolutionary in some ways. Maybe there is something like them but I > haven't seen it. > > Why don't you just go use wordpress? I don't think that Silverstripe > adds more and at least with WP you don't need to look at that crappy > loading screen on admin side whenever you click a button. Interesting, someone recommended WordPress early in this discussion but never followed up. -Ben Benjamin Horst [email protected] 646-464-2314 (Eastern) www.solidoffice.com -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
