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

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

Sweet! Sounds like Drupal it is, then!

I've setup Gentoo, so I'm not sure how much harder Drupal can be ....lol


-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Matt Pusateri
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 8:39 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] If you were given the choice between using drupal
and plone, which one would you pick?

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.
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