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

[Matt Pusateri]

having setup both, Drupal is going to be easier, and will only take 
1/2-1 day as opposed to 3 :)

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> Sweet! Sounds like Drupal it is, then!
>
> I've setup Gentoo, so I'm not sure how much harder Drupal can be ....lol
>
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> -----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 h,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.
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>>     
> 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.
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> Matt P.
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