Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/30/07 18:51

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> WTF is it?
>>>
>>> like most of these wonder tools, you find the site, and it tells you
>>> lots of stuff that you don't need, but the main questions:-
>>>
>>> what is it?
>>> where does it fit on my server? (debian/apache2/php5/mysql) etc.
>>> why should I want to use it?
>>>
>>> go unanswered...;-)
>>>
>>> Its Friday. Free for all discussion. Any input on what its good for,
>>> where its broken, how to integrate it with an existing website etc
>>> welcome.
>>>
>>> I know so little, I don't even know what questions to ask ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Did you try looking at their home page? It says exactly what Joomla is.
>>
> It says its a content management system.
>
> Thats a bit like saying a sherman tank is a road vehicle.
>
> I guess that, as usual, all those who have responded so far know even
> less than I do.
>
>

So then maybe a better question would be "what is a content management
system". It has a very specific meaning:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system

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