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The Web CMS Report 2008 looks at... Drupal

"It is rare that a Drupal implementation team does not utter the words "there is a module that does that." However, it does take some time for the module developers to catch up to the architectural changes introduced by each major release of the core. Module developers are responsible for testing and giving honest descriptions on the state of their modules (such as alpha, beta, and what version of the core the module is compatible with). A big part of the version compatibility issues with modules is that module developers do not have standard ways to interact with Drupal resources so they write their own database queries and directly access the file system. When the Drupal core changes the way it stores its data, modules break. There is no central body to evaluate modules or state what version they are compatible with. Unfortunately, the best information about the quality of a module is still usually word of mouth by the Drupal specialists who are constantly experimenting with new modules as they are released. "

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Announcing latest version of The Web CMS Report

20-Mar-2007

Today we released The Web CMS Report - 2007. That's Version 11 if you're counting. I have so much to say about the new trends, tools, and challenges we found that I'll write up a longer article about that next week. In the meantime, for a quick review of deltas from Version 10, in this new update we:

• Assess how Web CMS vendors are adapting Web 2.0 tools into their stacks (and find them coming up a bit short -- see press release)
• Introduce coverage of Enonic, Drupal, Joomla!, and Alfresco WCM
• Evaluate MOSS 2007 as a successor to Microsoft CMS
• Expand our coverage of standards, development models, and tool testing

Plus of course we update all our product evaluations, drawing heavily on the experiences of you, the customer.

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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