Comments on: The Open Source can of worms http://www.flipflops.org/2007/02/06/the-open-source-can-of-worms/ Flipflops.org is about web development and fairly conceptual art Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:19:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Darfuria http://www.flipflops.org/2007/02/06/the-open-source-can-of-worms/#comment-487 Darfuria Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:42:18 +0000 http://www.flipflops.org/2007/02/06/the-open-source-can-of-worms/#comment-487 Joomla, like many of those other pieces of software you can get for varying purposes, is just another 'thing' that you can get. Because it's free it has a large community that uses it, and therefore, the people who use it are generally into various development sectors as opposed to actually having a CMS. If a client wanted a CMS, they wouldn't search Google for open source CMS software, simply because it's fairly likely they wouldn't have a clue to know what they're looking for. Not only that, but having installed and seen Joomla, it's nothing but a hundred million options, with all of the important stuff hidden away. It's an overwhelming coridoor with millions of doors connecting with eachother, and that's not what any basic user wants. A hundred thousand options in a technological item or piece of software, to an only-barely computer-literate person is persuasion to think "fuck it" straight away. This is why, I think, Rocket is good where those other CMSs aren't. Sure, Joomla has a load of things Rocket can't do, but most of them are things Rocket wouldn't need to do. Aside from that, Joomla probably has a fair few developers, contributers, feedbackers and various other things. Rocket, however, just has the company and the clients opinions, most of which are very unheard of. I do like the general look of Joomla, and that is one thing I prefer over Rocket. But you should, of course, never judge a book by its cover. Joomla, like many of those other pieces of software you can get for varying purposes, is just another ‘thing’ that you can get. Because it’s free it has a large community that uses it, and therefore, the people who use it are generally into various development sectors as opposed to actually having a CMS.

If a client wanted a CMS, they wouldn’t search Google for open source CMS software, simply because it’s fairly likely they wouldn’t have a clue to know what they’re looking for.

Not only that, but having installed and seen Joomla, it’s nothing but a hundred million options, with all of the important stuff hidden away. It’s an overwhelming coridoor with millions of doors connecting with eachother, and that’s not what any basic user wants.

A hundred thousand options in a technological item or piece of software, to an only-barely computer-literate person is persuasion to think “fuck it” straight away.

This is why, I think, Rocket is good where those other CMSs aren’t. Sure, Joomla has a load of things Rocket can’t do, but most of them are things Rocket wouldn’t need to do. Aside from that, Joomla probably has a fair few developers, contributers, feedbackers and various other things. Rocket, however, just has the company and the clients opinions, most of which are very unheard of.

I do like the general look of Joomla, and that is one thing I prefer over Rocket. But you should, of course, never judge a book by its cover.

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