CMS Ranking Spreadsheet

David Tew sent me a nicely laid out Excel spreadsheet of the CMS Watch report data and concurs that they changed the data for Plone after the report was originally published (although he says that was the only change they made).

Comments

[Tony Byrne]

Very deliberately there was no "CMS Watch data" and to arbitrarily assign numbers is totally lame.

For the record, there is no "best CMS," and all ranking exercises are futile.

[Scott Paley]

Hello Tony,

Thank you for participating here. I was very clear in my original post that one size does not fit all, as you pointed out both in your original assessment and in your comment.

I wrote "Now, clearly nobody should choose a CMS based on an aggregate score like this. What's important to me (scalability and performance) might not be what's important to you (internationalization). So weigh these categories accordingly."

When I first read your article I had wondered how different products compared in an overall sense, for whatever that's worth (pretty little in your opinion). I ran some numbers to satisfy my own curiosity and mentioned what I found to a couple of people, who suggested I post it publicly.

By the way, several people have emailed me sharing your point of view, and others have emailed letting me know that they found the data useful.

Please also note that I published the full spreadsheet showing each individual product and how it performed for each individual category. The "scoring" I gave aside, I think this type of spreadsheet can be a very useful overview of your article.

It is very clear, as you pointed out, that what's important to one person may not be important to another. It's a case-by-case situation. As you wrote, "Alfresco doesn't offer decent personalization services; should you care? Perhaps not."

I agree.

That doesn't mean, in my opinion, that having an overall summary score is "totally lame" or useless. Again, people who wrote to me would suggest otherwise.

Thanks,
Scott