CMS recommendations?

[Michael Hipp]

A. Khattri wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
> 
>>Can anyone recommend any CMSes (content management systems) I should
>>evaluate?
> 
> 
> Mambo is pretty popular (mainly because it has a complete backend ready to
> go out of the box). We have built several ecommerce sites based on Mambo
> (with the mambo-phpshop plugin component). It uses AMP (Apache, MySQL PHP)
> Im afraid.
> 
> I have also played with Drupal and a few others but none are as easy as
> Mambo. If you want something more like a framework with a minimal backend
> I would look at Xaraya.
> 
> If you want blogs, look at WordPress or b2evolution (botnh have very nice
> backends).

I'm not sure I follow - this stuff is new to me. What exactly are you 
referring to with respect to the "backend" and "framework".

Thanks,
Michael