CMS

10 Promising Content Management Systems

Jacob Gube

When it comes to content management systems (CMS) and publishing platforms, there are plenty to choose from. They vary in technologies used, organization structure, performance, and license...

The friendly CMS for web designers

Direct

LightCMS is a content management system for web designers. Design sites, upload them to their content management system, and deploy world-class websites your clients can manage themselves.

SilverStripe is 2008's Most Promising Open Source CMS

Bryan

SilverStripe is today exclusively revealed as the winner of the 2008 Most Promising Open Source Content Management System. The SilverStripe project receive $2,000, holding off strong competition from CMS Made Simple in the first runner up position with ImpressCMS and MiaCMS finishing joint second runner up.

NewsCloud Released as Open Source Media Platform


NewsCloud began in 2004 as CommonBits, a community directory for distributing political videos via BitTorrent.
It evolved into CommonTimes, a social network for news and was rebranded as NewsCloud.com in May 2006.
NewsCloud is primarily the work of Jeff Reifman, a former Microsoft technologist and free-lance journalist and co-founded by Garrett Moon, a computer science student at Western Washington University.

Before some days they released the code for NewsCloud to the open source community under a GPL license.

The NewsCloud platform is written in PHP and MySQL.
One of the interesting things about the NewsCloud platform is its expanding use of Smarty as a template engine helping to fully customize the look and feel of the final result.

For more info you can visit the NewsCloud Blog, the related Wiki and the files repository on Sourceforge.

The competition is very strong between the open source CMSs and the crucial point is, who has the stronger developers community...