[KLUG Members] CMS Systems

[Adam Tauno Williams]

<aside>Is saying "Systems" after "CMS" [Content Management Systems] redundant? 
It has always bothered me to say "RDMBS Systems" (again the "S" is "System")
but "RDBMSs" seems wrong and "RDBM Systems" also seems wrong.</aside>

I need to put up a website to facilitate some things but I want to spend close
to zero time doing it (the website isn't the point, the information is).  So
I'm shopping around looking at the dizzying number of web CMS systems on
Freshmeat.  I looked especially at x-oops because that one was presented on at
a KLUG meeting by our own Mr. McGovern.  It seems to do 99.44% of what I need:
articles, news, files, etc... maybe an occasional survey just for kicks.

But I figured I'd ask the esteemed KLUG members@ list if anyone here has any
thoughts, recommendations, horror stories.

My requirements:
1. I don't care what-so-ever what database it uses, since this will sit all
alo1ne on its own box.
2. It has to support an external authenticator, at least LDAP, but it would be
best if I could plug in my own (via JASSO in Java, or an assembly in .NET, or
just overloading a class in PHP;  I don't much care about the 'how' so long as
it doesn't involved hacking the core of a package so my changes get whacked by
any upgrade).
3. A solution in JAVA (Tomcat), PHP, or C# is fine.  Just because I know these
three and they tend not to blow up on me when some obscure assembly in some
distant dependency gets updated/modified.
4. Work on Apache/LINUX (of course).
5. Have some mechanism for adding
modules/components/{whatever-you-want-to-call-them} as I'll need just two or
three 'vertical' features.  I want to spend my time on these and not all that
other stuff.  Even something as simple as a way to embed a URL via an IFRAME
and pass a list of parameters out of the CMS is fine (like OpenGroupware's
template system,  if you have had the distinct pleasure of working with that).

Adam Tauno Williams
Network & Systems Administrator
Morrison Industries
Grand Rapids, Mi. USA