Which one to choose: Mambo or Joomla?

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Mambo and Joomla are full-featured CMS applications, which offer rich feature set, easy customization and are FREE to use. When you look at them you can see that they are quite similar. And you may wonder what is the difference between them and which one to choose for your website.

Mambo is the older of the two - Joomla is actually a fork of Mambo and is thoroughly based on it. Somewhere at the end of 2005 Mambo developers chose to separate from the core Mambo team and founded a new CMS application called Joomla! /djuumla/. Since then, both tools started separate evolution, though there aren't any major differences between them yet.

Mambo CMS is a great tool that offers excellent options when it comes to content management. There is also a long list of add-on components and modules, which you may use on it and enhance its capabilities (e.g. forum, shopping cart, gallery, etc).

[Joomla! CMS] What about Joomla? Well, Joomla is more than 1 year old and contains all the benefits described for Mambo. It has large supporting community and contributers from all over the world. The addons built for Mambo were immediately optimized for Joomla and we can say that currently Joomla tools outnumber Mambo's.
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written by luis1, October 14, 2009
I prefer using Drupal (drupal.org), it is more powerful than Joomla or Mambo.
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written by Ian Lynch, October 14, 2009
We use Drupal too. Why not do a comparison of Drupal, Mambo and Joomla?
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written by Stephen James, October 14, 2009
Drupal has many modules available and all GPL. I found that many things I wanted to do with Joomla Mambo required a subscription to gain access to the latest (read Compatible) add-on.

There is a great community out there and many professionally published books aimed at various levels of expertise and audience.
http://drupal.org/books

I'd not choose mambo/Joomla again.
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written by Alan Lord, October 14, 2009
Drupal or Joomla! are good platforms. We use Joomla! because of the vast community behind it and their responsiveness. I'm sure Drupal has a similar - albeit smaller - community of helpful and dedicated followers too.

This analysis on Google Trends is quite interesting if you ask me:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Joomla,+Drupal,+Mambo
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written by Paul1, October 14, 2009
One more vote for Drupal. I use it both to host basic web sites for friends/family, and as an application platform for custom software development that wants a "web 2.0" style user interface.

Nothing beats Drupal's API, for development. And Drupal *definitely* has a larger base of already-written modules and plugins. smilies/grin.gif

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