An up-to-date and educated comparison of the latest versions of the two popular enterprise-grade CMSes from the perspective of Plone and Drupal experts.
Out-of-the-Box Experience • Adding Products or Modules • Adding and Editing Content • Customizations • Theming • Upgrades and Migrations • Hosting • Performance • Security • IP and Community
to get the 57MB tar ball • Run the `install.sh` script that will download and build the dependancies • Start the instance • Point your browser to the running instance
have MAMP, WAMP, or Acquia dev desktop pre installed • 3 clicks from drupal.org to download the 12MB tarball. • Extract into your webroot • Make a database in your technology of choice (MySQL, PostgreSQL) • Head to the site in your browser to run the install script via the web installer
unique combination of world-class content management features and maximum security. https://castlecms.io/ • The Cyn.in portal utilizes Plone and the foundation for their social intranet project. http://cynapse.com/cyn-in/ • The Quaive project also starts with Plone 5 as the base for a knowledge sharing platform. http://quaive.com/
starting at $20/mo • AWS EC2 instances T2.medium starting at $37/mo • Azure VMs A2 instance starting at $65/mo • Six Feet Up offers entry level Plone hosting via containers starting at $50/mo
but seems to be an ecosystem of interesting deployment choices: • pantheon.io starting at $25/mo • acquia.com (if you have to ask…) • platform.sh starting at $50/mo
2001 • Plone 5 Released in September 2015 • Plone Foundation created in 2004 • 103,811 commits made by 895 contributors representing 1,248,178 lines of code
2001 • Drupal 8 released November 2015 • Drupal Association created in 2009 • 31,150 commits made by 150 contributors representing 704,269 lines of code • Drupal Trademark owned and controlled by Dries Buytaert • All Drupal code is Copyright 2001 - 2013 by the original authors? • Backdrop Fork (D7)