[Imc-alternatives] an important development: not another CMS!?!?

[ryan]

> Just thought I'd point out that unlike Drupal and Plone, CakePHP is
> NOT a CMS.  What it is, is a PHP web development framework.  Which
> means that a PHP developer can use it to develop a CMS.

CakePHP itself is not a CMS -- that is true. The reason CakePHP is on
the shortlist is because:

1) Drupal, while being a CMS, is NOT built on a sophisticated web
framework. The greatly limits its ability to expand the application.
Drupal SHOULD be built on an intelligent, rapid-app-dev framework.

2) Recently, the Mambo CMS has announced it will be re-writing it
itself in CakePHP so we expect to reuse a lot of their code in
assembling a CakePHP-based CMS, *if* that's the direction we choose
to go in. We do not intent to write a CMS from scratch from CakePHP
but rather assemble a CMS out of the existing reusable code available
for Cake.

So, that's the rationale there.
-ryan