[TYPO3-english] News portals in TYPO3; Drupal v/s TYPO3

[Rahul Dewan [srijan.in]]

Hi,

Does anyone know of News/Magazine websites built in TYPO3? We're looking to
get started on a project for a start-up News Magazine in India, and are
considering TYPO3 for the same. Wonder what the experience of the developers
with TYPO3 is on building such portals.

We chose Drupal (over TYPO3) to build the
www.indiaenvironmentportal.orgearly this year (launched recently),
which has over 300,000 articles, tagged
with 8000 keywords/phrases, and an Apache Solr search to enable researchers
to search through content, filtering the content using Tags. The reason we
had chosen Drupal was for several reasons:
- core Taxonomy engine (which was to be big component in this portal)
- superior cacheing
- front-end admin
- Apache Solr search - an integrated module (we bumped across this later by
chance; thankfully this existed, else we would have been in a bit of a mess
working with Drupal's core search)
- access to a prolific contributor to Drupal who had worked on portals like
www.amnesty.org (we probably could not have done so well on the portal
without him)

We're now considering TYPO3 for deploying such large portals, as we are more
experienced with building News portals in general, and aware of scalability
and design issues much better.

Could someone help with identifying portals built on such a large scale on
TYPO3, and also share some experiences (from a development, AND
content-creator/manager perspective)?

Thanks,
Rahul Dewan

[A clarification (before we get bashed up by the list members for choosing
Drupal over TYPO3): we're ofcourse pushing TYPO3 among corporates big time
in India, with deployments at Bharti/Airtel (India's leading Telecom
company), NIIT (a leading technology company), a Tata Motors company, among
a host of non-profits. So we're doing a good job with our commitments to
TYPO3 :-) ]
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