[TriLUG] If you were given the choice between using drupal and plone, which one would you pick?

[Matt Pusateri]

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> I'm very familiar with vbulletin, phpnuke, postnuke ...etc. I'm
> designing a new site (for home use), some thing tabby, possibly a site
> for me, and a site for a friend or two.
>
> I was thinking plone, but I've had a lot of people say go with drupal.
>
> I'd rather not have people post comments (wiki-like), just be presented
> with what I want them.
>
> So, which one would you choose?
>
> I am running Gentoo (latest), btw.
>   
So, I haven't looked a Plone in awhile, I have looked at Joomla and 
Drupal.  I'm an old Drupal user and am actually putting up a intranet 
portal for my company at the moment in Drupal.  I like Drupal, because 
is seems to be more mature, has an extensive module list and has enough 
features to be able to do more things.  Granted Drupal is more complex 
than Joomla, and that complexity has a steeper learning curve, but it 
also allows for greater flexibility as well.  Joomla is a better choice 
if your needs are really simple and so are you.  I was turned off my 
Joomla's demo site and the poor administration pages.  It was actually 
so simple that I figured it would never meet my needs.  Here is a rather 
poor article on the three, I say poor because I would have thought it 
would have more detail.  I post it becuase it summarizes the use cases 
for each.  http://www.idealware.org/articles/joomla_drupal_plone.php   
My gut says Plone is overkill, Joomla if you want to do a simple site, 
and Drupal if you want more flexibility at the cost of more setup 
time.   I think once you get over the Drupal setup, it's killer and 
blows away Joomla, especially if you want to integrate it with other 
things.   I'd spend some time trolling the modules for each, it was 
Drupal's modules compared to Joomla's that was the final nail in the 
Joomla coffin for me.  I'd imagine you'd want to integrate gallery with 
your sites, which drupal has a module for, not sure if Joomla does or 
not, I imagine they do.


Matt P.