CMS - portal server Question

[Oliver Lietz]

Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 15:10 schrieb Norberto Meijome:
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:13:18 +0300
>
> Achilleas mantzios <achill at matrix.gatewaynet.com> wrote:
> > i am thinking of deploying a CMS system for our corporate web server.
> >
> > I have seen/installed/tested :
> >
> > Jboss Portal : Seeems good and standards complying but too unstable
> > Apache Lenya : Very unstable - could not get it to any useful work
> > Php-nuke     : (despite our favor towards java, this seems stable but not
> > what we want) OpenCMS      : Very stable but not so open source - some
> > one has to pay to get anything more than the basic

Read the source and try to understand what's happening inside the CMS before 
you choose one. Some have a shiny frontend but smell inside like dead fish. 

[...]
> Java based, I've just been reading about Magnolia, which seems quite
> impressive http://www.magnolia.info , but I'm always a bit weary of
> products that are open source with an 'enterprise version with more
> features'...

Magnolia is a good choice. It's open, has an active developer community and is 
standards-based. Read the "Licensing" thread from 15th August 2006 by Boris 
Kraft.

Oliver