If money was not an issue, what CMS would you buy?

I'm asking this so I won't have to upgrade in the future once I get more money.

Currently I'm using:

Vivvo for my main website, vBulletin for the forums and Wordpress for the blogs.

Can anyone else disagree that I am not using the best? Money is not an issue here so please suggest better options.

Below are the rivals of what I have (parenthesis statements are the reasons why I use it):

Vivvo (I use it as a news site to update news, articles, videos, tips, tricks stuff like that)

1. Joomla
2. Drupal

vBulletin (Basically for people to discuss things. A social zone)

1. IPB 2.2
2. Expression Engine Forums

Wordpress (commentary to the other sections of the website, forums, vivvo)

1. Expression Engine
2. Blogger
3. Movable Type

Though if I was a good webdesigner I could probably just stick with Expression Engine since it already has an integration with the forums and blog.
I decided that I should rather use quality as vBulletin has some special features and more customizable than the EE. Same goes for Vivvo for its very simple use. And again for wordpress.

 

Drupal for the news/blog site.
vBulletin for the forums.

What kind of website are you working on? The more complex you want the site to be, the more money it will cost you.

 

Definitely i will go with Joomla.

 

"Vivvo for my main website, vBulletin for the forums and Wordpress for the blogs."

- Sounds damn good to me.

 

To answer your subject line,

I'd never buy a CMS. An open source one will always gather a bigger community around it, that will make it a better mods resource, and you can save your money for any custom adjustments required for the CMS to better serve your needs.

Paid CMS's are like closed circle communities.

 

I agree with Clive. If you feel you absolutely *must* spend some money, pick an open source project and send them a donation.

 

My vote is Joomla.

 

Some may think that free stuff cannot compare to paid one. Well, that is true in many cases. Not when talking about CMS software.
So yes, give Joomla a try.

 

Depends on the nature of the site, but I would be inclined to go with Joomla.

 

You must have extensive experience with commercial content management systems since you're so sure the open source cms' are better.. Correct?

Personally, I think most of the open source stuff is only usable for small and simple sites. The only exceptions I've seen are EZ Publish and Plone.


Vidar

 

Jooooooooomla forever.
Its not just a CMS these days.

Joomla has become a multipurpose application building environment.

 

1. Wordpress is free
2. vBulletin -- eh, punbb or vanilla are just as good
3. Vivvo? Never heard of it. I use e107 and am quite happy with it.

 

PHPCow for CMS and enjoy.

 

1. e107
2. vBulletin
3. WordPress

 

I like Wordpress for a basic CMS, but if you need something more complex Drupal. I don't really know of any good ones that you have to buy, because I always use free solutions.

 

Definitely I will choose Vivvo .

 

Joomla here
Good community
Lots of templates/extensions
Perfect SEO (even without SEO plugins)

 

For my site I use:

Drupal for the hompage and about sections.
Wordpress for my blog and articles.
PHPBB for the forum.

 

joomla vb wordpress

 

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