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CMS: Build or Buy?
I'm in the same boat as a lot of other folks. Trying to decide between two competing vendor's solutions for my company (build vs. buy, basically). I won't be coding it myself, we'll be hiring one of the two firms. It'll be a total bottom-to-top rebuild of a magazine-style site with regular content updates by a staff of non-techies (in-context wysiwyg editing is essential) and a community that includes a forum, wiki, etc. The audience is professionals working in a very technical field and privacy/authentication is a big issue. Single sign-on across our sister sites is a requirement and we're using OpenID right now, but we could be talked into something else.
Given all that, here are my choices:
1) A from-scratch custom app built on Symfony. We really like the vendor but our current CMS is a custom job that is a PITA to maintain and we don't think we're asking for something terribly exotic. Plus, we're nervous about being beholden to them for support.
2) A Plone site with some add-ons for a best-of-breed approach (Solr, MoinMoin, Deliverance). We love the ease of use and this vendor is fine, but we're concerned here as well about finding good 3rd party support down the road.
Any suggestions? What would you do? Any help appreciated. I'm new here, so please go easy on me if I'm not doing this right. ;-)
Thanks!