To Compare DRUPAL and SHAREPOINT 2007

By pinter on 29 Aug 2008 at 08:08 UTC

I am studying CMS, and currently looking at 2 in detail to compare.

Would somebody be able to help me to compare the difference between SHAREPOINT 2007 and DRUPAL and tell me which CMS is better. I know that SHAREPOINT 2007 is for ASP.NET and that DRUPAL is for PHP, but besides that I would like to know the difference, in for example, which has the best SEO(search engine optimization) features.

I am new to this so a simple explanation would be grateful. Thanks in advance.

Rikki

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To Compare DRUPAL and SHAREPOINT 2007

pinter commented 29 August 2008 at 08:11

by the way i have read the other posts on the same topic and although parts are useful I would still appreciate it if some could help me directly, as I am new, thank you.

Rikki

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marcvangend

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commented 29 August 2008 at 11:15

I don't know enough about sharepoint to answer your question, but there are quite some articles out there saying something about it. Dries Buytaert, founder of drupal, wrote a blog about sharepoint 2007: http://buytaert.net/sharepoint-2007.
You can probably compare Drupal and SP in terms of SEO, performance etc, but aren't features the most important criterium? I think the most important question you have to answer is: which is the best tool for the job?

Having used both, I can say

WorldFallz commented 29 August 2008 at 13:40

Having used both, I can say the biggest difference I've seen between the two (there are many mind you, but this was the single most salient one for me) is true document management (as opposed to content management). Hands down sharepoint wins that battle head-to-head with drupal (although alfresco, another open source alternative, is a great option if you open up the field to other choices).

Yes you can implement many document management like features with drupal-- but the killer parts like office (open or ms office, doesn't really matter which) integration, offline documentation creation/editing, automatic office document synchronization and revision control are not yet possible (at least not without a significant investment in programming afaik).

That's not to say it's not possible-- i firmly believe it is. But it's trapped by a chicken and egg type problem-- in order to attract the kind of corporate sponsorship needed to push through that type of integration one needs corporate buy-in to drupal by a company that requires this functionality. However, to attract the attention of a company that has the need and resources to contribute it, the product needs to offer it. Catch 22.

There was a google summer of code project to work on a document api, but it seems to have stalled at importing exif data from images (something already available via other means) and not really substantial enough to catch the type of corporate attention interested in true document management.

At the moment, afaik, alfresco is the only open source alternative that provides both true document management as well as web based content management.

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