Can anyone recommend a CMS engine with a nice set of features, preferable open source? Not so bothered by a user interface, it's the back-end that is most important to me so I can integrate with existing sites and applications.
(CMS's with front-ends are fine to suggest if there is good separation from the back-end.)
Bonus features include SQL, XML or mixed datasources, versioning and workflow.
Many thanks Scott
Hi, I've used Joomla and Drupal in the past and they are nice, I dont know exactly what you are looking for, so its hard to give recomendations, but here you have a comprehensive list of existing CMS's, I'm afraid that you'll have to check a few until you find something suitable for your needs.
If you're looking for an opensource CMS engine written for .NET, one that I can think of is Umbraco. Their API documentation is here.
DotNetNuke is a widely adopted open source framework for website content management and web application development on Microsoft ASP.NET platform.
Read more details about DotNetNuke here.
I've personally used Drupal and Joomla and both have their respective pros and cons. What I suggest is to go to OpenSourceCMS and have a play around with the vanilla installs that they have there. Find one that intrigues you and then head over to its website to investigate it some more.
My choice is:
Currently I'm using Wordpress myself. But only for simple / medium solutions.