The CMS space is dominated by PHP solutions. Coming from a Java background I would have been happy to work with a CMS solution like OpenCMS or Magnolia but then, as you would have heard, wearing the Architect’s hat you have to be technology agnostic. Or, may be putting it is a better way less biased towards the technology that you like.
So I have worked on some commercial CMS solutions like Documentum and Weblogic CMS but obviously this time around I am not looking to pay for a solution. What are the solutions that we have in the open source space? We have a site called OpenSourceCMS that allows you to try out a demo of the potential candidates and then make up your mind. It has a wide variety of CMS solutions and you pick the one that you need. It also has a list which compares the CMS solution based on user rating.
So from here you can get some idea on what CMS are doing well as per the users. Taking the number fo hits, counts and user rating I narrowed down to 2 possible candidates Drupal and Joomla.
Next, I viewed the demos for the two at OpenSourceCM,
