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What CMS should you choose; Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal or Plone? Idealware organization has presented a report comparing numerous CMS solutions, where Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone were in the top contender.  This report was titled “2010 Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems: WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal and Plone”. They have given joomla at the second rank . The report says “The final tally showed Joomla as the market leader, followed by WordPress, then Drupal, then Plone.”

It's obvious that it depends on your own needs and situation. All four are solid systems with robust communities and a huge amount of functionality that will allow your technical staff to update your site. If your needs aren’t very complex—that is, if you’re planning to hire someone to build you a site that’s less than several hundred pages, is generally hierarchically arranged, and will be updated by only a handful of people in your organization—any of these systems will work fine. In fact, the person you hire to build the site will be the much more important choice. Look for someone who understands your needs and your organization, is responsive, can speak in a language you understand, and seems eager to work with you… and then use whichever CMS he or she recommends.

Who would believe that there would be an open source CMS based on Microsoft's ASP.NET? A CMS that can support any modern browser and that even allows editing with Microsoft Word. One where designers can create accessible and valid xhtml with their markup left intact. Where developers can integrate any .net based control right out of the box. If someone tells you "won’t happen", then they have never used umbraco...

What is Umbraco?

umbraco is an open source project with roots back to year 2000 even though it wasn't released as open source until 2004. Prior to that it was founder Niels Hartvig's home-grown weapon of choise for working as a freelancer.

Today it has grown to be among the top fifteen most popular open source .NET applications and in May 2008 it hit a milestone at 50.000 installed and active websites (double up from 25.000 in April 2007).

Water & Stone, a web development company specializing in Open Source technologies, released a popularity survey of open source content management systems. In the analysis of 19 of the most prominent open source content management systems, Water and Stone evaluated CMS’s on the basis of Rate of Adoption and Brand Strength, as well as a variety of other viability indicators and trends.

Leaving Alfresco Out

Aside the strange fact of not including the open source giant Alfresco in its evaluation, the discussion seems to be pretty interesting. Water & Stone described this decision as “although popular and suitable for web publishing,” Alfresco and others are “primarily intended for more narrow uses.” Not sure what that means, but we will go on.

While WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal lead across a wide range of measures, the survey also identified Elgg and MODx as rising stars