Jerome

Has anyone got experience of a decent CMS that can be used with .NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005?

I've been reviewing a few, but does anyone know of a better one that actually installs first time and does the job without a 10 year learning curve.

The ones I've reviewed so far are:

Ektron CMS400
Difficult to install - the demo version requiring an hour of support time to get it to install. The demo version doesn't seem that impressive and the Ektron Explorer won't install. Virtually no comments in the code I looked at. Not impressed with the product at all. Expensive for something so flaky.

DotNetNuke
Again, problematical installation. I haven't actually managed to even see it running, such is it's determination not to install. I dread to think what problems I may encounter with an open source product if the installation is so bad.

Telligent Community Server
For the price, doesn't actually seem to provide much in terms of website content management.

stevem2k

We're using a lot of EpiServer for the M$ projects.

Web Content Management System - EPiServer

Markus

Joomla/Mambo perhaps? Not sure if they can be used with .Net or SQL Server (it does seem to use mysql though, so I would guess you could configure it to run against SQL Server 2005)

I have been messing around with Joomla recently, trying to emulate a website and it does seem possible to do this. Installation wasn't too much of an issue, and configuration was ok once I'd read the docs

scoobyjimbo

Try Sitecore - not cheap but a good solution and we have used on many of our contracts.

Home - Sitecore Content Management System (CMS)

thanks
J