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evan Posted…

I don't know about small businesses software; typically Oracle is used in an enterprise environment. I don't have any advice except for this: under no circumstances should anyone give Interwoven any money (or business, for that matter). As was previously mentioned, there are resources out there: Cam's CMS List, and didn't someone recently mention CityDesk?

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Nate Posted…

Ha, I was considering mentioning CityDesk, but thought that it didn't fall under the umbrella of web based content management, since I think there is a desktop app involved. But I forgot to mention userland software, such as manila which I belive constitutes a good web based cms and for comparitively minimal cost. Though I probably should not comment further since I haven't used it and don't know about any oracle hooks.

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Alex Posted…

These are some good places to start. I mention Oracle only because we already use it in-house even though we are a small company. We store a lot of date. Evan, thanks for the heads up on Interwoven, I will avoid them. I will also check out the CMS list.

The CMS doesn't have to be purely Web-based, a desktop app would be fine as long as most of our internal users could manage content via a browser. Thanks for the recommendations!

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francois Posted…

Here's another CMS list, with a mailing list associated, which would be another good place to ask I guess. And also CMSWatch. And just for interest sake (I know it's not what Alex asked for), an exhaustive list -- over 140 -- of blogging software, most hand-rolled.

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michael Posted…

I like the fact that CityDesk works on the desktop rather than in a browser. I'm not convinced that editing in a browser is the best approach.

Alex, the companies that I have seen that are using a CMS to interface with Oracle had their own customized solution developed in house.

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DCe Posted…

A realy nice CMS is Nucleus, available at http://www.nucleuscms.org/ Its running on php and a mySQL database, is easy to set up (setup script), super scalable, and Belgian :–p

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Alex Posted…

I appreciate all of the responses (not to mention the fact that Nate was nice enough to post the question for me)! I plan on looking through all of these lists and actually plan on looking at the blogging software as well as it should prove to be a good source of ideas for features.
Michael, I have a feeling that we might have to do the same and develop in–house, which is fine. Also, I agree that the browser isn’t always the best solution, and if we can have both I would be very happy. The key for me as a Webmaster is to ensure that the pages that my internal customers need to post to are easy to update and as solid as possible. The less chance for them to affect the design the better.

Again, thanks everyone for such a great response. I knew the webgraphics community would come through!

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Alex Posted…

FYI, I just ran across the first of a series of articles The ABCs of CMS over at Evolt. It looks promising for those interested in building their own.

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Scotty The Body Posted…

Robert over at bump told me about a great CMS that I think kicks major booty: webgenerator–x (site).

I have yet to dig into it and customize too much, but the features include excellent template support, XML module interaction, fully web–based administration and a caching mechanism to prevent excessive CPU/SQL utilization.

Once again — PHP/mSQL only.

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Jonathan Peterson Posted…

You may want to take a look at p–machine. It has a nice feature set, is PHP talking to MySQL (I would assume replacing MySQL with Oracle may be as simple as a couple of config file changes). http://www.pmachine.com/index.php

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Dave Posted…

Also check out Postmaster over at Hivelogic.