Re: open source - content management system - that uses PostGreSQL

Vivek Khera wrote:
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> On Feb 16, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Andrew Kirkness wrote:
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>> I am currently setting up a website and have PostGreSQL database I'm
>> using for the backend. I'm researching an open source Content
>> Management System that uses PostGreSQL. Do you have any recommendations?
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> You need to define what you want your CMS to do, before you get good
> recommendations.
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> We've investigated a bunch of systems for publishing a magazine-type
> site, http://www.morebusiness.com/  and have discovered that pretty
> much all of them like to work with mysql :-(
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> I think this is because many of the designers of the free, lower-end,
> software don't truly appreciate the relational SQL model and treat the
> DB as a dumb store.  Once you move higher-up in the chain, you start
> to see better data models, and they lean toward using Pg instead...
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> I can't figure out what you want to do with customer data  and the
> CMS.   Without knowing that, nobody can really say anything meaningful
> to you.  Are your customers providing the content?
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> Despite this lack of clarity, I can recommend that you first define
> the features you want and then evaluate the systems based on those
> features being available.  Then all else being equal, use the
> preferred DB as your tie breaker.  I wouldn't rule out some good
> software just because it uses mysql on the back-end.
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