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Today Joomla released 1.5.3, just a month after 1.5.2 as the latest version of Joomla’s next generation of the 1.5 architecture.
While Joomla 1.5.x is very, VERY promising, and a big improvement over the 1.0.x architecture,
Joomla 1.5.x is just not there yet. I’d call it a “Vista” product.
How is Joomla 1.5 like Windows Vista? It doesn’t work well with about 90% of the existing components, modules & plugins.
There are very, VERY few components & extensions available for 1.5. If Joomla’s core features are all you need, then Joomla 1.5 is for you.
If you want to update all your Joomla 1.5 sites monthly or so, with their next “stable” version, then again, Joomla 1.5 is for you.
If you require extensions and plugins, Joomla 1.5 isn’t there yet, and it doesn’t look like it’ll happen soon.
With Joomla 1.5 being updated as frequently as it has been, it’s really far from stable in my opinion, yet some members of the Joomla community are attempting to push the architecture as being READY.
One major rumbling at a popular Joomla Template club indicates the template club will only be desiging templates for Joomla 1.5, dropping the 1.0 architecture completely. Their latest template is only available in a 1.5 version, with staff indicating “it’s time to move on…”
I can’t imagine that move will drive more business for them, only hurt their existing membership as many members are planning to “move on…” to a new template club.
So, while the rest of the world is quickly and expediantly forging full-steam ahead with Joomla 1.5, only to run into brick walls at high-speed when trying to find a functional component or plugin, we here at MyJoomlaGuide.com will continue to produce videos for both versions, 1.5 & the extremely stable 1.0.xx.
I’m excited about the future of Joomla 1.5, and I’m not willing to abandon a tried and truely stable system for one with so many less features.
I will continue to produce Video Tutorials on Joomla 1.0 & Joomla 1.5 at MyJoomlaGuide.com.
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Regards,
Jeffrey Cleary
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Tags: Joomla, Joomla!, CMS, Open Source
Hello,
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Our team consists of both experienced Joomla developers (Johan Janssens – major contributor to Joomla 1.5, Mathias Verraes – major contributor to DOCman and Shayne Bartlett – major contributor to LETTERman) and other open source contributors (Laurens Vandeput – Eclipse, Joomla) and Amit Shah (co-founder and VP Business Development of OpenX).
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Sage-like. I bet you predicted $200/bbl oil, as well.
Great comparison.
Great, so one of you might actually qwork on vTiger so it’s issue with blank pages after installation is gone forever and it’s buggy code replaced, and the other one can work on horribly exploitable Joomla, which we constantly have to clean for tens of clients out of exploits and injections regardless of the PHP setup and security. vTiger is of course much better than Joomla, but Joomla is a joke.
Been testing both. SugarCRM is a beast. Seems to me to be very user-unfriendly.
You install it and there is not much I was able to do with it. Ie, what I needed from it like web-to-lead forms, customer service portal and workflow were not available without purchasing those components. A freemium business model is fine by me — but if you can’t test drive the components and see how and if it works for your business case — that’s not good. And adds to the headache.
I get the sense that SugarCRM has experienced a fit of feature bloat and the owners have decided to make huge, fundamental components (mentioned above) as paid software.
Vtiger on the other hand, may not be as robust as a full pro or enterprise edition SugarCRM — but I’m almost glad. It makes for a much easier, more productive environment in which to work.
Yes the redundant modules within the tabs are silly (tabs are organized by employee role like ‘marketing’, ’sales’ etc so their submenu items have redundancies) but that’s minor.
Main thing is: which have I been able to do more with in a short amount of setup and development time? Vtiger.
Installation: both were pretty easy. For some vtiger modules you do need to edit some file config values here and there but wasn’t too bad.
Ease of use — and ease of setting it up to do what you need it to do — is paramount I think – because the most robust app in the world doesn’t do you business any good if folks don’t like working with it. Vtiger wins hands down in this category.