An Overview Of Commercial And Open Source Content Management System
Few years back an online market started in a debate on whether to opt for an open
source or a commercial source for content management systems and over the time we could not reach a decision firmly but changed our own styles at our own individual levels.
Lets look into open source content management system as well as commercial one and most of us prefer commercial content management systems and also over the time open source CMS has also evolved. Nowadays it is now no longer tuff to search for CMS that can be customizable as per user requirements so let us have a look at the benefits of open source CMS.
It does not require paying a bill for gaining access of the open source systems and if you were paying would be making use of a commercial content management system also you don't pay there is still the possibility that you may receive support and updates because most of the open source CMS systems are community managed so this will then afford you the flexibility of changing the code yourself or leveraging off the code from others.
Many of us find that commercial ones provide limited support for changes to the users because the code is proprietary so you are not allowed to change the code and this effectively means that if the CMS does not meet proper requirements then you will find it difficult to make changes. And on the other hand open source welcomes suggestion in its feature and code also it welcomes users to redistribute the code so this effectively allows you to leverage off expertise of other users in the industry.
The biggest advantageous feature of an open source content management systems is that it comes in the universal capacities to adapt and install on any platform and this is the great feature that most commercial CMS systems still lacking also you will find custom tailored systems where as they have their own requirements for the user to ensure before they can operate.
Because of open source systems are backed by the large community of users so you will often find templates and plug-in freely available and there are normally plug-in that meet most business requirements. The support one will find from commercial system is having relation to the amount of payment made on the agreements and also response time and quality of service is very good this may become very costly.