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Technical Evaluation by the Design Subgroup
CUL Vision Report - Web Site Development Recommendations
Platforms finally evaluated
- CommonSpot 5
- Contribute/Dreamweaver
- Drupal
Contribute/Dreamweaver was eliminated quickly
- produces a static site that is hard to maintain
- no CUL system integration or content re-use
Commonspot vs. Drupal
- Open source provides options for flexibility, debugging, testing that proprietary code and database definitions does not.
- DLIT has very little ColdFusion expertise, lots of php experience.
- Commonspot 5 required upgrading servers to ColdFusion 7 and upgrading all 16 sites from previous version.
- Commonspot costs $5500 per year, upgrade to CF7 would be around $2500. It also requires a dedicated server.
- Drupal would be implemented on existing servers without interfering with their current uses.
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