jayco437
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Re: Listing of CMS / Forums for Webmasters
said by bluebearMX  :
What about us ColdFusion folks???
It's difficult finding anything open source or free with CF. From my experience, CF is usually reserved for use in companies due to the cost of it (among other reasons). You have as much luck finding quality CF FAQ's, personal blog sites, help sites and such.
But, here are some "not for free" ones  :
ektron
simplycms
sparkplug
hot banana
Prices range from $100 for a single domain license up to a grand or more for multi-domain/enterprise licenses.
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Alan
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| reply to Zhen-Xjell
Re: Drupal
Here's a review of Drupal for folks who may be interested: »codemonkeyx.net/node/view/2
The site, codemonkeyx.net, just made the move from a custom phpbb portal to Drupal. |
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aggiejy
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Wimberley, TX | reply to Zhen-Xjell
I guess that this forum is anti-ms technology?
Rainbow Portal
DotNetNuke |
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jayco437
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| said by aggiejy :
I guess that this forum is anti-ms technology?
Bordering on . I think theres at least a few of us that post in ATU (All Things Unix) as well.
Honestly though, I don't think there are enough of us here that use .NET that we would know of any forums. Think about how many .NET questions you have seen in the last week--or month even, compared to PHP or even Perl. Heck, I think there are more Python related question
My best guess is that we often see unix php-enabled servers recommended because most of us that post here also seem to be cheap
The .NET additions are wholeheartedly welcomed here however 
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aggiejy
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| hehe... I know. I was more or less joking... it's pretty obvious that there aren't too many .net developers in this forum (or on bbr it seems). But I'm always here if anyone has any questions!
Not that I'm in love with MS (I do use php and other stuff), but their .NET stuff is pretty cool. As far as costs... it is mostly perception that isn't always true. All you have to buy is the server software and everything else is free. (Web edition is around $350 »hardwarecentral.dealtime.com/xPO···20740721) You can run mySQL or any other DB to power it too. |
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orinoco
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The iBuySpy Portal is rather limited IMO. I haven't used DotNetNuke yet. Never heard of the Rainbow Portal. It's Contact and Discussion modules look similar to iBuySpy's.
This forum is mostly OSS language oriented - PHP, Perl, Python, etc. There are more PHP/MySQL users (and questions) than ASP.NET and ASP. I use ASP.NET everyday but I guess I know it enough not to have to ask questions. Either that or I know how to STFW and RTFM
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aggiejy
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| Yes, iBuySpy Portal IS limited, which is why DotNetNuke and Rainbow Portal are built on the basic principles of iBuySpy but extend the feature set. One is a GPL licence and one is a BSD licence. There are more ASP/ASP.NET developers than you think... and we shouldn't discourage them from asking questions here. (which is why we should list some asp.net open source projects along with the others) |
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jayco437
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Lincoln, NE
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said by aggiejy :
All you have to buy is the server software and everything else is free. (Web edition is around $350
I didn't know you could buy a seperate webserver version like that. I wonder if it suffers from a concurrent connections limitation at all? Any licensing on top of it (per client?).
I was mostly referring to the cost of basic hosting though. You can get unix hosting cheaper than MS hosting generally (for obvious reasons).
I agree with listing asp.net projects here, or any language for that matter (even ColdFusion ), as long as they fit the CMS/Forum "bill"
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aggiejy
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| said by jayco437 :
I didn't know you could buy a seperate webserver version like that. I wonder if it suffers from a concurrent connections limitation at all? Any licensing on top of it (per client?).
There is a drawback in that you are not supposed to run anything but web applications and such off of it. You don't need client licences or anything, but supposedly running a database server on it would be in violation. (or maybe it's only a violation if you run mssql?) At any rate, what I do (for the people I host) is set up a web box for them, and I have a seperate db server. That way, you're 100% legal and separating them makes sense anyway. I have a MSSQL and a MySQL database box. You're right about hosting though... shared hosting is much cheaper with linux solutions. (»www.flarehosting.com is an alright place to host for what you get though... MSSQL, Coldfusion, etc) |
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jayco437
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Lincoln, NE | MSSQL and ColdFusion together--what kind of sadist are you |
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aggiejy
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Wimberley, TX | lol... works good together! Boy, you can tear through some cold fusion quick like. |
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orinoco
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said by jayco437 :
I didn't know you could buy a seperate webserver version like that. I wonder if it suffers from a concurrent connections limitation at all? Any licensing on top of it (per client?).
I thought I read somewhere that it was (25???), but it must have been FUD. It is limited in that you cannot install MSSQL on it - only MSDE, which does have a concurrent connection limit of 5 or 10. It also doesn't include ICF, so it is open to the Internet (upgrade incentive).
I use 2003 Web Edition on my laptop for developing. I setup MSDNS on it and created a .dev TLD for developing, so each project is its own domain - foo.dev, bar.dev, quux.dev, etc. Kind of weird having 50 sites running on my laptop MSDE for local developing isn't that bad, but you cannot install MSSQL Enterprise Manager client tools either, so that is a major PITA. I tried NTSwitch to try to bypass this but it didn't work.
The $400 price for web edition is nice, but I'd recommend 2003 SBS - 2003 Std, SQL 2000 and Exchange 2000 for under $900 IIRC - cheaper than 2000SBS by a few hundred dollars.
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jayco437
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| They also have (or did) a developers pack they seem to sell at least once a year for a steep discount over regular prices--specifically for developing with. Last one I heard of two years ago was like $300 for full versions of all the high end progs too--SQL Server and such.
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orinoco
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| It's called the Action Pack. $300 gets you development/testing versions of client and server OSs, database, email, and other servers as well.
I have a subscription to it and is well worth it for non-production machines.
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TexasGuy
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Houston, TX
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I am making a CMS from PHPBB.com's board. BTW, the board I need anyway. I thought that it would be ambiguous to have two different systems, one for website and another for the bulletin board. Easy enough to do, post in a hidden forum, then read it from MySQL with PHP into a website.
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shutter
join:2000-11-11
Newton, MA | I've worked with Mambo Open source pretty happily for a while. Another Enterprise CMS that I've known some happy companies with is Percussion Software / Rhythmyx (they're more open source / XML standards based). |
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trparky
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Cleveland, OH
clubs: | Mambo Open Source!
I use it on my site and I love it! The ability to drop in Components and Modules using the web admin makes it great!
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golden eagle
Aquila chrysaetos
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Perl
»www.metadot.com/metadot/index.pl |
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TheSaint
join:2002-01-25
Hanover Park, IL
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Don't forget typo3!
www.typo3.org |
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callihn4
join:2002-01-10
Space | reply to Zhen-Xjell
Another CMS:
CPG-Nuke: »www.cpgnuke.com/ |
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