Test drive: Website lets users try CMS

University Business, Nov, 2004

Finding the right content management system to suit the special needs of your institution can be a hit or miss situation, but help is available. Before you settle on any particular system, visit opensourceCMS.com. It's like a "try before you buy" site for CMS.

CM systems are grouped on the site in categories including portals, weblogs, e-commerce, forums and so on. The e-learning category, for example, features systems from ATutor, Claroline, LogiCampus, Moodle, Segue, and Site@School. Users can Log on and give each system a try without having to install anything on their own computer.

The site was launched in 2002 by Scott Goodwin, who was frustrated with his efforts to find CMS information. "After having so much trouble early on with CMSs, I figured there had to be a market for hosting and providing support, although limited, for these systems.

Thus, opensourceCMS was born," Goodwin says. "It made perfect sense to me to place all the popular CMS programs under one roof in order to try them out."