By FeraTechInc on

I am looking for a new CMS, I have used PHP-Nuke and Xoops.

Also, I am mostly looking for a CMS which offers a full and robust eCommerce solution with good client and invoice management.

For those that use Drupal for their business solutions I would greatly appreciate your input.

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styro commented

But the two main reasons were the taxonomy system and that the forum allowed threaded comments (I can't stand flat forums). We needed support forums and a knowledge base for our product.

Things have only got better and better since then, and it now runs our whole site.

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netidme commented

There does seem to be a lot of support here, especially for the 'technically challenged' among us. I have decided which CMS system to implement yet, but Drupal is definitely a contender

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modul commented

I had about one year of experience with Joomla, contributed a number of modules, mambots and components to it, but there were 2 main objections still pending: Joomla does not have a user access and user management system to speak of, and it does not allow to put text in more than one "category" (should be careful with the term, because it means different things in Drupal than in Joomla).

Before that year, I had already given some attention to Drupal, but the version at that time was simply too complicated. Its administrative side was, well, not nice. So, Joomla it was, until those 2 shortcomings really became insurmountable. I again took a good look at Drupal, noticed that the administration had been streamlined in version 5, and decided to take the jump - albeit with pain in the heart. Now, after 3 weeks of working with Drupal, I can say that its supposedly steeper learning curve is exaggerated: Drupal is as easy (or as difficult) to learn as Joomla. Its codebase is much more reliable and accessible. Its collection of additional modules is about 50 % smaller than the one you find in the Joomla world, but it does cover the most important things. And its user access management and its taxonomy system are simply Unique. Those two alone are my bottom line reason for making the switch to Drupal, and for being happy about it.

I don't have any experience with PHP-Nuke or Xoops. I hear that they are well-established systems in their own right, but I really wonder if they can inspire the same feeling of "This Is The One And Only" that Drupal gave me.

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