I’m planning on launching some small consumer software products in the next couple months and to support this effort, I need to have a CMS, Forums Software, Store Front (Credit Card Processing) and Wiki solutions up and running.  Since I’m a .Net guy, my first choice is to use Microsoft .Net technology, but if I don’t find anything there that suits me, off to the LAMP stack I go.  It’s important to me that all of these are tied together with a single sign-on.  It always irritates me when you go to a site and they make you first log in to the site, the create a separate login for forums.  I will avoid that experience for my customers and users.

 

My Research

My research first started with Google/Bing type searches.  That really leads me to many choices.  Actually too many.  Next, I go to my friend network.  The first obvious person I turn to is Scott Cate because he seems to always have the best advice on this kind of thing. The guy is plugged into everything!

Scott give me a very strong recommendation to look at Umbraco.  He says he is personally involved in writing code for that CMS, it’s very extensible, has a great admin UI and bottom line, is just good stuff.  So, Off I go to http://umbraco.org.

 

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