Demonknight Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 I'm looking for a good free (hopefully, open source) ASP.NET CMS software. Does anyone have any suggestions on any? I'm looking for likes/dislikes, pro/cons, etc. of the different ones. Would like it to be VB.NET based but I'll take C#. More detail: I'm starting to build an Intranet for my department and instead of starting from scratch, I was wondering if there was a CMS, or other platform, that will do what I need already built/started. Mainly what I want the CMS for is user/group security, simple static page creation, etc., which could be in some other "platform" so it doesn't have to be a CMS app. The other requirements is it has to be modifiable so I can create the custom apps and modules I need for my department. Sharepoint has a lot of features that I need, but it costs too much, and honestly is over kill for our purposes. I've just started researching this and I have found a few open source ASP.NET CMS systems, but I haven't found a good site that has reviewed them or offers a pro/con comparisons. A few I've found are DotNetNuke, AxCMS.net, and umbraco. Over the next week I will be checking into these further, but I'm asking if anyone has been in this situation before if they would offer up their experiences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Why specifically ASP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyrancher82 Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Why specifically ASP? Because ASP.NET is more suitable for a business environment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demonknight Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 Why specifically ASP? How did I know this question would come up? Basically for two major reasons: 1) our main IT dept is a Windows shop and 2) the software we use is built on the .NET framework so to do some of the integrations I plan to do will require me to use their API. The vendor only supports VB/VBA and VB.NET. I've seen plenty (and use some personally) PHP based CMS and other web apps, but to get a server with PHP setup is going to be too hard to push through my IT department. But even if I had an Apache server with a PHP based CMS I would be stuck with the vendor's API. I'm not saying I couldn't figure out a way to use PHP and their API, but if something came up they wouldn't support me (answer any questions I have) with PHP code. Simply put, I'm trying to save me some time and headache of developing a "platform" for these applications I need to build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Why specifically ASP? Because ASP.NET is more suitable for a business environment. Like COBOL? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyrancher82 Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Why specifically ASP? Because ASP.NET is more suitable for a business environment. Like COBOL? How is this relavent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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