Ariadne Application Server

[Jonathan Ellis]

Kimball Larsen wrote:
> My company is looking for a good web content management suite/site  
> builder thing to redesign the current incarnation of their website.  I  
> have taken a look at cocoon already, and after spending nearly a full  
> day trying to get it installed on our debian box (apt-get install  
> cocoon claims to have installed it, but the installation is broken) I  
> opted to look for other options.

OpenACS (tcl) and WebGUI (perl) are worth a look.  The PHP ones all 
pretty much suck compared to these two.  I haven't done more than look 
at the data model for ariadne, but that's enough.  They define four 
tables -- nodes, objects, properties, and types -- and everything gets 
stuffed in there.  Not a good relational model.  And having worked with 
tables like this in practice, I can assure you it sucks as much in 
practice as it does in theory. :-|

-Jonathan