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Overview

A content management system (or CMS) is any software which aids in the collaborative management of documents or other media for presentation over the web.

There is a certain amount of overlap between "content management" and "collaborative project management" (CPM); until I can figure out what the difference is, I'm going to lump them all together here.

Related Pages

• Some groupware applications have content management systems built in; some blogging applications can also be used for content management, depending on what features are needed.

List

All are open source unless otherwise indicated

• A wiki is a particular form of content management software
  • MediaWiki (uses PHP and MySQL)
  • TWiki
• Drupal (uses PHP)
• Geeklog: uses PHP/MySQL
• Joomla: uses PHP/MySQL
• LifeType [[W!]]: blogging; uses PHP/MySQL
• PHP-Nuke [[W!]] [W]
• Plone [[W!]]: uses Python
• Scoop: uses Perl/MySQL; used by Daily Kos blogging site
• Syntax CMS: uses PHP/MySQL
• Textpattern [[W!]]: uses PHP
• WebGUI: uses Perl
• Website Baker: uses PHP/MySQL (there's a live demo, but where's the login page?)
• WordPress [[W!]]: blogging; uses PHP/MySQL
  • also does podcasting: DIY Radio
• XOOPS: uses PHP/MySQL

Collaborative Project Management

• activeCollab: uses PHP/MySQL

Forum-Only Software

• Vanilla
• phpBB [[W!]] [W]

Reference

• Wikipedia