Showing posts with label cms content management system. Show all posts
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Monday, February 24, 2014

Comparing CMS Applications: DotNetNuke vs. Joomla vs. Kentico vs. WordPress

DotNetNuke, Joomla, Kentico and WordPress are the most popular Content Management Systems or CMS Applications used all over the world to power websites. However, even though each CMS has its advantages and shortcomings, you can build your own website of any kind. Let us now compare the features and other information about all the four Content Management Systems.



DotNetNuke
Joomla
Kentico 
WordPress
CMS Release Date
 February 2009
 August 2005
September 2004
May 2003
Started by
Walker's company
Forked  from Mambo
Petr Palas
Matt Mullenwegg and Mike Little
Company
DotNetNuke Corp.
The Joomla Project
Kentico Software
WordPress
Framework
.NET
PHP
.NET
PHP
Application Server
Windows
Windows, Linux
Windows
Windows, Linux
Licensing Model
Open Source
Open Source
Pay Per Domain
Open Source
Base Cost
N/A
Free
Affordable Cost
Free
Implementation Cost
N/A
Costly
Free
Costly
Usability
Less
Comparatively Less
High
High
No. of websites powered
>7,50,000
>500,000,000
>10 million
>10 million
Downloads
>8 million
>30 million
>1 million
>140 million
Top sites using the platform
EricksonTribune, Magenic, SkyeTek
Harvard University, The Hill
BendixKing, RAC, Brantano
Forbes, CNN, Sony
Free Themes
 1,315+
900+
1000+
2000+
Free Plug-ins
12,780+
7000+
10000+
27000+
Best used for
Commercial websites, corporate intranets and extranets, online publishing portals, and custom vertical applications
e-commerce, social networking sites
e-commerce, intranet, social networking, online marketing 
Blogs, corporate websites, small-medium sized websites