An evaluation of most popular open source content management systems

Abstract

There are several Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) available and used by organizations today. Content Management Systems evolved as a viable alternative to traditional web site authoring tools, programs and website building applications. Content management systems offers an easy and dynamic approach to manage large and small amount of content on organizational websites. There are a large number of open source CMS available online for users to download, setup and use. But, the question is how to decide on what CMS to use? This is a difficult question to answer and it depends on the organization as well as other factors to be considered by webmasters and web programmers. This study aims to evaluate three of the most popular Open Source Content Management Systems and reach a conclusion on which CMS best to be used by organizations. After installing each of these systems on an actual web server and working with the systems through their control panel and performing similar tasks on all three system we conclude that WordPress by far is the most suitable CMS for most organizations based on Usability, Adaptability, Modularity, Customizations, and Availability of reliable Updates.