By jeffcitron on

I am a business owner in the process of doing a dredesign on our webiste and am looking at two companies. The first is my current provider who is designing the site and CMS with Cold Fusion. The other uses Drupal. I am familiar with Cold Fusion but have not heard of Drupak and would like to know why I would go with a company that uses Drupal rather than Cold Fusion.

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dnewkerk commented

This page may help get you started on why to choose Drupal: http://drupal.org/node/21951
Also you can see many other sites that have chosen Drupal here: http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites
And detailed case studies here: http://drupal.org/cases

Though I don't know much about ColdFusion myself, to my knowledge it is a commercial product, which is fundamentally different from Drupal, which is both free and open source (similar to the Linux operating system). Also ColdFusion only runs in a specialized hosting environment (not that it's bad, just will determine your hosting options)... Drupal will run on almost any server on any host.

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dreadfulcode commented

Content management systems are the future of web development.

Drupal is the future of content development systems.

Therefore, drupal is the future of web development.

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styro commented

isn't something you'd compare to a CMS (eg Drupal), it is something you'd compare to another programming language (eg PHP). And as much as I think PHP isn't exactly a shining example of a good programming language, I happen to think Coldfusion is worse.

But, the language comparison is pretty much irrelevant unless you want to do some coding yourself or hire other coders later. So don't worry about Coldfusion itself.

What you need to ask is how does this custom CMS (or did I get the wrong impression about that?) written by your provider compare with Drupal?

You should ask which CMS is likely to still be supported and developed in the future, which CMS is flexible and extensible enough for you into the future, which CMS has the best prospects for support from other parties (both developers and hosters) later, does either CMS tie you to a specific party etc etc.

Drupal has had nearly a decade of constant development from a large development community, and that community is growing exponentially. I would be very hesitant to use a custom CMS in terms of future support, and available security fixes etc.

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wr5aw commented

The bottom line in my choice of Drupal can be summed up in one word - performance. It's lightening fast caching is what sold me. I've built up a couple of sites using Drupal and you absolutely can not tell the difference between Drupal and static html. There are many many large commercial sites using Drupal. The businesses that design and support those sites chose Drupal for a reason.

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dreadfulcode commented

Another example:

cmstips.org

Made in 10 minutes.