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I don't think there will ever be such a thing as "an un-biased review", but a feature/activity/support/developer philosophy matrix would be really useful.
As far as evaluation is concerned, you should check out Scott Goodwin's OpenSourceCMS.com. It will save you tons of time in your evaluation process (at least of OpenSource CMS solutions), since you don't have to spend an hour on the installation step for each product you're evaluating. It rarely has the absolute latest releases, but they're reasonably up-to-date, and give a good idea of what the product is capable of.
You're right, though, that if you've got a custom problem, no solution is likely to do everything you want right out of the box. Thankfully, most CMS systems like XOOPS have the ability to extend functionality through modules/plug-ins. If you need a custom functionality not provided by the core product, see if anyone else has written a module to do what you want. If not, you can always make on yourself without having to rewrite the product code.
dheltzel wrote:
I wish there were an un-biased review of the various products and some kind of feature matrix to aid in decision making. I've found some of these, but they are clearly "marketing material", and very biased to a certain product. There are probably white papers available from consultants, but even these are biased in favor of the products they like to install and support.
I don't think there will ever be such a thing as "an un-biased review", but a feature/activity/support/developer philosophy matrix would be really useful.
As far as evaluation is concerned, you should check out Scott Goodwin's OpenSourceCMS.com. It will save you tons of time in your evaluation process (at least of OpenSource CMS solutions), since you don't have to spend an hour on the installation step for each product you're evaluating. It rarely has the absolute latest releases, but they're reasonably up-to-date, and give a good idea of what the product is capable of.
You're right, though, that if you've got a custom problem, no solution is likely to do everything you want right out of the box. Thankfully, most CMS systems like XOOPS have the ability to extend functionality through modules/plug-ins. If you need a custom functionality not provided by the core product, see if anyone else has written a module to do what you want. If not, you can always make on yourself without having to rewrite the product code.
