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

[Michael Miousse]

Rahul Dewan [srijan.in] wrote:

> 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 :-) ]

i don't know of a magazine of that scale but this one has been made with
typo3 : http://www.pacw.org/

-- 
Michael Miousse
Infoglobe
michael.miousse at infoglobe.ca