Gábor Hojtsy shares his insights from comparing several open source CMSs, including Joomla!, Drupal, Plone and Typo3 specific to multilingual support...

So which one is the best?

...while generic database overlays are marketed as the most versatile solution, they are very unfriendly and limited for the end users. The other end of the spectrum (which is chosen by Drupal modules) has separate content instances that pave the way for a handful of appealing features like revision control and permission handling, as well as professional workflow possibilities. However, data sharing was trickier and inconvenient for the users until recently, before sharing improvements hit Drupal's i18n module set.

Drupal 6 will hopefully push forward a content-based solution, but there are still some open questions. If you are interested, a discussion is taking place on this topic on Drupal.org...

via Dana Blankenhorn - blogs.zdnet.com, developmentseed.org | tags: open source multilingual support developmentseed comparison cms oscms

Labels: sharing, social_software, software