CMS Trends - Custom Vs Prebuilt

Question

Hi,

I was trying to analyze the trend about companies leaving their own custom built solution in favor of the standard CMS solutions such as Drupal, Joomla and DotNetNuke etc. While I can find many stories about medium and large organizations leaving their custom solution for Drupal/Joomla etc, I cannot find any reference where organizations are leaving prebuilt CMS's/Frameworks to go custom again. Is this not happening at all or it's just a matter of not being properly documented?

Thank you.

Imran.

Answer 1

I can't think of a situation where a company has abandoned an in-house developed CMS in favor of re-developing a CMS on their own.

Everything I'm familiar with involves leaving a hand rolled CMS solution in favor of a commercial/open source solution.

Answer 2

Well i can imagine that while most companies prefer homebrewn solutions for some of them or in certain scenario's an open source or commercial alternative might fill their needs.

In case we at our work need to set up a blog we'll most likely choose wordpress, we know it, it does what it needs to do and does it good. Customization isn't a big deal but out of the box it works too.

For larger projects we always use our own CSM built with our own framework, that is what we know best.

So to answer your question, I still have to see the first company going from existing CMS to custom built but i'm fairly certain there are alot doing both.

Answer 3

You should check out MODx