By looking at the CMS open source portals, it is amazing the amount of business and providers making a profit out of these applications. Some of them contribute a certain percentage of their charges and profits to the open source portals. How many of them do this? There are large companies using them, besides the non-profits and charitable ones.
A non-profit or a small charity organization would be overwhelmed trying to compare the different platforms. The kind of resources that would be needed, capabilities, vulnerabilities, applicability, weaknesses, maintenance, hosting, framework, and the dozens of acronyms related to all of these. I am acronyms-challenged and this online search was pushing my mental limitations over the edge.
There is a PDF document at the IdealWare.org which compares the most popular CMS portals. Funded by the consultants and agencies that provide support and development services. You can find support from a large number of consulting companies all over the globe. The implementation of a website using these open source portals is not the kind of effort a public school district IT staff could handle or afford. But if schools could form a cooperative and put together their limited budgets, they could share in the implementation of a Content Management System they can all share and maintain.
I think it depends on the school district that is adding it. Our district already pays twice for our website. we pay for the CMS and again for the salary of our administrator. Looking at the way that reviewers have said that the products have improved over just the past couple of years, I can see the savings benefits that a school could experience.
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