webEdition CMS - 6.0.0.7b3

With experience for now more than three years of webEdition I must say: it is a great Content Management System. We use it on Macs - it is well done for Mac-Support. The company also is very active in developping enhancements. In three years time, the system advanced by great leaps, without any problem to the user. The regular updates are fine, the modules add to it and work well.
Compared with Typo3, (Opensource), you save a lot in developping it, if you are not a professional programmer. I personally prefer webedition, as it puts us as a user in the position to fully control what we got, we do not depend on outside sources. I think with Typo3 we would not be able to come to the same result.

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It also shows, that a CMS is not just plain bulletin board but lets you do great design

Herwig Niggemann, Bochum Germany

one of the ways I decide whether or not a product is worthwhile is to view the product's online support. Not only is this crucial for anything complex (such as installing/configuring a CMS) but it also provides an invaluable opportunity to see what other users are saying about the product.

what will immediately stop me from considering a given product is if I visit their site and there is no support forum OR if there is a support forum and it is "disabled."

This raises a red flag in my mind and gets interpreted as "they are hiding something" or "they don't seem confident in their own product."

Another issue related to webEdition CMS is that while they say it costs $249.00 it really is more like 3 grand to get the "full" version that is comparable to other free CMS systems. so... they really nickle and dime you.

no thanks.

Geesh - all these opensource freaks :)

While I agree that there are a lot of open-source and free options out there, webEdition CMS is impressive.

A few of the CMS solutions mentioned in the comments below by others suffer from three major things: they're annoying to install, they do not work well with Mac browsers (or even at all) and they possess a poorly designed user-interface.

wECMS is probably the easiest CMS I've installed, and they provide an automated remote installer for Windows, OS X and Linux. For non-geek types who have a shared PHP/mySQL hosting plan, it's a breeze. I had it up and running on my Win2003 dev server in no time.

These people know what they're doing with cross-browser/platform capatability. I was able to use the web-based interface of this CMS on my Mac perfectly - and almost forgot I was using a web based app.

The interface is elegant and well put together. Again, top-notch and insanely better than a lot of the open-source products.

I've only tried this for a few brief minutes (and unfortunately without some of the modules), but it looks to be a very nice product. I'll definitely be giving it thorough beating to see if it's as nice as it appears to be.

My CMS of choice is Land Down Under (LDU) It installs well, is XTML compliant and handles everything that is needed. Version 601/602 is very stable.

webEdition functions well, but I don't know about the modules.

Competing against 'free' open-source, the choice is a no brainer. Sorry but that is life.

and is open source and freely downloadable on www.bolinos.org so why bother?