20 Open Source Content Management Systems you should know.

Ok. We all know about Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress Xoops etc… Are there any other CMS that we could use to create our site?

We list here 20 content management systems you should be aware of.

1) Ajato

Ajato is a cms that is highly inspired by Drupal.

Ajato is a CMS (Content Management System) that uses Lua as the primary script language. It helps people to manage a whole site, controlling the users and the content creation.

With the free modules and themes, you can transform Ajato into virtually all types of sites, from wikis, blogs, forums or e-commerce store. Or everything of it at once! You wont need a separate system to each of these features.

2) Alfresco

Alfresco is the leading open source enterprise content management system built by the most experienced team in the industry drawn from Documentum®, Vignette® and Interwoven®. Twenty years of experience drove us to believe that the Enterprise Content Management industry was driven by:

• High Cost — Application driven purchases with a high up-front investment and per user pricing
• High Complexity — Long rollout cycles and complexity resulting in software either not being implemented or used
• Lack of Customer Control — Proprietary control preventing choice and ability to switch to other vendors

For these reasons the vast majority of people do not use ECM systems but instead work with shared drives and email to create, share and store content.

3) Ariadne

Ariadne is a multi-language Web Application Server and Content Management System built with PHP. It has a rich user interface which includes wizards, pulldown menus, and a WYSIWYG HTML editor. Data is stored in a structured object store and can be accessed via filesystem-like calls (ls, find, get). It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.

4) BEdita

With BEdita you can create multiple Web-sites at the same time, you can organize libraries and archives, implement e-commerce services, e-learning, blogs; you can setup structure and contents for printed matter, you can handle and coordinate work of an entire editorial staff, and much much more….

5) Bigace

BIGACE is not just an easy to use Web Content Management System (CMS), but offers also a scripting API and an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. BIGACE reduces development costs and helps developers write less code.

6) Bitweaver

Bitweaver is a free and open source web application framework and content management system. Its speed and power are ideal for large-scale community websites and corporate applications, but it is simple enough for non-technical small site users to set up and administrate. It comes fully featured on install but is modular and easy to extend.

7) Bloofox

bloofoxCMS is a free open source content management system (CMS). bloofoxCMS is a small and easy to use CMS. It enables you to manage websites and intranet sites on a very simple way. It is slim but also flexible.

8) Bricolage

 Bricolage is an open-source enterprise-class content management system, greatly simplifies the complex tasks of creating, managing, and publishing the vast libraries of content essential to any organization. With advanced features such as fully-configurable workflows, customizable document types, multisite management capabilities, and comprehensive Perl- and PHP-based templating support, Bricolage has been designed from the ground-up to scale to meet the demanding needs of large organizations around the world.

9) BrowserCMS

The newly redesigned BrowserCMS 2.0 is an easy, affordable way to control, edit, and organize website content.  Now you can make changes with confidence, without the risk of adverse effects on the look and feel of your website. Simply open the content, make the edit, and save it. With our enterprise content management system, it’s done!

10) Calimero.CMS

Calimero.CMS is a Open-Source Content Management System which is used to publish websites. There are several uses today, including this one. It is realised in PHP and needs a data base (usually MySql) to store the content. The System is build modularly using PEAR, hence new components can be added easily. The output of the content is based on templates (Smarty), which means that it is easy to customise the existing design to the individual needs of the owner of a website.

11) Cofax

Cofax is a Web-based text and multimedia content management system (CMS). It was designed to simplify the presentation of newspapers on the Web and to expedite real-time Web publication.
Cofax, at it’s core, is a framework of software modules and tools to manage and deliver news content from different sources. It was developed using Java, database, and XML technologies. It is easy to use and implement.

12) Concept CMS

Concept cms is a scalable and very flexible Open Source Content Management System. We have done our best to keep everything smart and simple for the editor.

13) Concrete5

Concrete5 makes running a website easy.
Go to any page in your site, and a editing toolbar gives you all the controls you need to update your website. No intimidating manuals, no complicated administration interfaces – just point and click.

14) Crux CMS

CruxCMS is a lightweight, easy to use website content management system (CMS)
It is written in PHP and uses the powerful MySQL database
Although lightweight, it has a large number of features and is ideal for both small, personal websites and larger corporate sites.
CruxCMS has been written with web designers in mind and as such is extremely easy to create designs for.

15) Direct News

Direct News thinks of the end user, bringing you an intuitive solution free from technological constraints. Direct News content management software uses the same functions available in most online office tools. Updating your website can be done from any computer connected to the internet – no installation required. Direct News was developed paying careful attention to website quality: security first, speed, as well as complying with XHTML 1.0 requirements, CSS 2, W3C and the use of a cache system.

16) e107

e107 is a content management system written in PHP and using the popular open source MySQL database system for content storage. It’s completely free, totally customisable and in constant development.

17) Etomite

Etomite is a Content Management System, which allows you to remotely administer your website from anywhere that you have an Internet Connection and a compatible Web-Browser.

18) GetSimple CMS

GetSimple is an XML based lite Content Management System. To go along with it’s best-in-class user interface, we have loaded it with features that every website needs, but with nothing it doesn’t. GetSimple is truly the simplest way to manage a small-business website.

19) Mapix

Mapix CMS is a very simple CMS that allows to modify any content in your websites without using a database.
All the content of your website is written in XML files that are editable through mapix back office.
Mapix is free (GNU GPL Licence), simple to use, extensible and will integrate many extensions in the following months : Forum, Blog, E-Commerce…

20) Olat

The development of OLAT started in 1999 at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where it is the strategic learning management system and deployed on the main OLAT server. The University of Zurich leads the further development and provides a team of 12 developers pushing OLAT to the next level.

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