Open Source CMS Summit

Document management should be mentioned in any discussion about content management systems, even though it is often overlooked among other CMS products like blogs, e-commerce, and websites. The reason document management often gets overlooked in the conversation is that open source CMSs don’t offer as much in the way of document management as do other commercial and open source services. But, as will be discussed below, open source CMSs offer some level of document management services and the amount of services they do offer is likely to grow.

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One of the most popular and highly rated open source content management systems, Joomla! started out as a product from the split in the group of developers of the Mambo CMS in 2005 and has grown dramatically since then. With well over 2.5 million downloads, it is a popular CMS that allows Web users to manage content on their Web sites easily and professionally. continue reading…

While there are many open source content management systems, it is hard to argue that WordPress isn’t the most popular out there. Over 202 million Web sites use WordPress, and its own Web site ranks among the most popular in the U.S. and world. continue reading…

One of the big three open source Content Management Systems (Joomla! and WordPress being the other two), Drupal is both a popular and critically acclaimed CMS. The list of sites that use Drupal features some impressive names, and the number of awards it has received, too, is impressive. Like with other popular CMSs, users like Drupal for its ability to create Web content, single and multi-user blogs, Internet forums, and community Web sites with user-generated content. continue reading…