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Editor's Note: There have been moments here at CMS Report when I am amazed with the insightful and in depth comments written by some of our readers. This is one of those moments. Chris Jewitt, left us a comment regarding several popular content management systems (CMS).  The CMS mentioned in this brief review are Joomla!, Wordpress, Dotnetnuke, Plone, Drupal, Alfresco, and Sharepoint.I moved Chris Jewitt's comments have been moved to the "front page" so the story isn't missed by those visiting this site.  Any hyperlinks found in this story have been added by the editor.Submitted by Chris Jewitt on December 4, 2008 - 1:42am.   Kudos to Mike Heck for a high level comparison of the top 5 open source content management systems. Personally I find it difficult to scrutinize any community (geeky or not) that has contributed for the # of years and volume these communities have. As Amy so eloquently mentioned, if you don't like something then contribute - make a difference. I have to also say, I have often found myself left empty when trying to find a good objective, deep-dive opinions and analysis of these web content management systems. I think the only true "content management system" is Alfresco in this comparison. It seems the strength of the others are web content management. I've spent the last 6 years working in commercial content management and portal systems. Lately I've been investigating open source solutions and started down the Drupal path; however, I still waffle over Plone. For what it's worth, here's my reasoning or two cents:read more