Comments on: Buffer dump 22DEC07 http://bentrem.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/buffer-dump-22dec07/ Making the best of a good thing one breath at a time Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:48:04 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: bentrem http://bentrem.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/buffer-dump-22dec07/#comment-10 bentrem Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:08:29 +0000 http://bentrem.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/buffer-dump-22dec07/#comment-10 @Dennis - A nice coincidence that your blog is a ZDNet! A discussion I'm taking part in at the moment is centered on <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7366" rel="nofollow">ZDNet's "WordPress vs. an army of clunky content management systems" by Dan Farber & Larry Dignan Also featuring David Berlind</a> ... over at <a href="http://wordpressgarage.com/themes/zdnet-says-wordpress-not-clunky-but-also-not-cms/" rel="nofollow">WordPress garage</a>. What I'm seeing there, and what I've encountered elsewhere, is that it becomes a matter of taxonomy; if it kinda quacks like a CMS, and more or less walks like a CMS ... is it? Those who focus on where a system falls shorts say nae, and <i>vice versa</i>. Those who've had good experience with WP in some sort of group situation tend to call it CMS, with not too much view to correctness. My impulse is to suggest Drupal + WP, but realize how wrong I could be with regards to specifics. I'm about to download / install the former, and am compiling hard documents on WPMU. As for "never designed as a multi-user platform", actually <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPressMU" rel="nofollow">WordPerfect MultiUser</a> was designed with precisely that in mind. BTW: I'm seeing <a href="http://docs.simplemachines.org/" rel="nofollow">Simple Machines</a> come up as a player in this. @Dennis – A nice coincidence that your blog is a ZDNet! A discussion I’m taking part in at the moment is centered on ZDNet’s “WordPress vs. an army of clunky content management systems” by Dan Farber & Larry Dignan Also featuring David Berlind … over at WordPress garage.

What I’m seeing there, and what I’ve encountered elsewhere, is that it becomes a matter of taxonomy; if it kinda quacks like a CMS, and more or less walks like a CMS … is it?

Those who focus on where a system falls shorts say nae, and vice versa. Those who’ve had good experience with WP in some sort of group situation tend to call it CMS, with not too much view to correctness.

My impulse is to suggest Drupal + WP, but realize how wrong I could be with regards to specifics.
I’m about to download / install the former, and am compiling hard documents on WPMU.

As for “never designed as a multi-user platform”, actually WordPerfect MultiUser was designed with precisely that in mind.

BTW: I’m seeing Simple Machines come up as a player in this.

]]> By: Dennis Howlett http://bentrem.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/buffer-dump-22dec07/#comment-9 Dennis Howlett Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:56:43 +0000 http://bentrem.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/buffer-dump-22dec07/#comment-9 Wordpress is a very capable single person blog platform but has limitations once you move beyond that. It was never designed as a multi-user platform and does not have CM functionality of a kind business would normally expect to find. It can be force fitted but it is not ideal. Drupal, Joomla and MT are better alternatives. WordPress is a very capable single person blog platform but has limitations once you move beyond that. It was never designed as a multi-user platform and does not have CM functionality of a kind business would normally expect to find. It can be force fitted but it is not ideal. Drupal, Joomla and MT are better alternatives.

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