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Wednesday 15 February 2006 1:27:40 am
Let's not kid ourselves here. <b>No system will give you out of the box exactly what you need</b>; therefore you need a system that can easily be configured and extended to achieve what you want with the minimum amount of effort. I have used opencms, mambo as well as other enterprise systems like interwoven and I can honestly say that eZ publish by far the most complete and flexible system you can find. It is open source and what is more, there is a big company backing it and all components are centrally developed and supported. Sometimes it is worth investing a little more time and money on a product that will easily scale and mould to your future needs. Let's take your requirements one by one and apply them to eZ publish
<i>Community Forums</i> --> out of the box
<i>Multiple Blogs (with complete blog features)</i> --> out of the box
<i>Community Job Board (post, search, e-mail, resume/cv upload??)</i> --> achieved by configuration and a couple of new templates
<i>Article Publishing (with reader commentary, archives, categorization, ratings, etc)</i> --> out of the box
<i>Advertising management (banner ads, text ads)</i> --> achieved by configuration
<i>User Directory (Private)</i> --> easily created and configured through the admin interface and by adding a couple of templates Even though I mention "out of the box", this doesn't mean that it is set in stone; you can easily tweak any level of behaviour/look & feel through the flexible eZ publish override mechanism. eZ publish may look daunting at first but you must persevere. Believe me this system is very well thought out. It is well worth your time reading the concepts and basics at http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_6/concepts_and_basics and looking at the flash tutorials at http://ez.no/products/ez_publish_open_source_enterprise_cms/demo/flash_demos
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