topic Re: shopping cart, blogs, reviews, forums, chat in Alfresco Archive

shopping cart, blogs, reviews, forums, chat

kenyee — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:58:40 GMT

Dum question but does Alfresco support any of these features? The search engine didn't pick up any posts on the forums with "cart" as a keyword. Seems like Alfresco is more focused as a Document Management System rather than a website CMS?Just trying to do a fair comparison w/ Drupal for a site I'

Re: shopping cart, blogs, reviews, forums, chat

jbarmash — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:28:53 GMT

The way our WCM works is that we focus on managing content, but not as much on creating the site for you, though that's also possible. As such, our customers still have to design their website, and integrate some of the functionality you talk about.

We focus more on enterprise use case, where this is not too much of an issue - if you are building a site for a multi-national, your needs are unlikely to be met by a generic shopping cart component, IMO.

It's not so much a feature by feature comparison, but more of a philosophical approach. We have our strengths, Drupal has its strengths. We can manage 10 sites side by side, some written in .NET, others in Rails, yet others in PHP, Drupal cannot do that. We can easily define a rigorous approval process for rolling out new site changes, and Drupal is not as strong here as well.

If the site will not have very heavy traffic and because of the features you list, Drupal might be a good choice.

Re: shopping cart, blogs, reviews, forums, chat

kenyee — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:44:53 GMT

Thanks, jbarmash. I just wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything because some CMS systems have addons/modules that implement these features (e.g. OpenCMS and KonaCart)
Sounds like Alfresco is more of a heavy duty document management system if I read the webdav, CIFS and JSR170 features correctly). Not a bad thing but not a good fit for this particular project.

Re: shopping cart, blogs, reviews, forums, chat

jbarmash — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:07:26 GMT

We are both a DM system and a WCM system. WCM is used by some of the biggest sites on the internet, including US TV Networks, publishing houses, game companies. However, our system is not currently designed to suit smaller sites. In the next release we are building Web Studio, a tool that will help people build sites much easier than currently possible.

Re: shopping cart, blogs, reviews, forums, chat

kenyee — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:04:49 GMT

yep…slightly different terminology from what I'm used to:
WCM = CMS
DM = DMS

A lot of companies use a CMS nowadays, but a lot of them expect these features as part of the CMS, even if you tell them you can integrate a 3rd party forum, blog, etc. That's what I run into when trying to sell a CMS to a customer at least :cry: