Drupal VS. Mambo 2

General Comparison Mambo has, for a long time, been ahead of competing CMS projects with regards to marketing. Mambo’s public image is pretty, appealing and very marketable to management. Mambo has no doubt benefited from the sponsoring company and trademark owner Miro’s advertising dollars in this regard. Of course, this was all before the recent hostile project takeover by Miro; while there are people who will argue that any publicity is good publicity, we’ll just have to sit and see how this particular move will play out. Drupal, in contrast, has been a community project from the start. There’s been no single strong corporate sponsor (though that’s changing with entities such as CivicSpace throwing their weight behind the project) to hold sway over the project, and the overall image has been somewhat less glitzy and more downplayed. Where Mambo Shines Mambo is certainly “easy on the eyes”: most people react very favorably to seeing the administration interface for the first time. Another aspect where Mambo is definitely ahead of the game is in installation friendliness, as well as add-on management (installation and uninstallation of components, modules, etc.) In comparison, Drupal requires one to manually unzip add-ons on the server, possibly create the necessary SQL tables from supplied scripts, and there is no friendly installation “wizard” to guide you through first-time installation. (This is all evolving, though; it shouldn’t be many months before there is a comprehensive installation system available in Drupal.) If the above points are very important considerations to you, as they certainly might be to less technically-savvy users, then you may not really benefit from this article. As stated, our team hails from a quite different user segment. Drupal VS. Mambo 3