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

[piet roorda]

the site of the computermagazin ct in the netherlands is on typo3
http://www.fnl.nl/ct

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Michael Miousse
<michael.miousse at infoglobe.ca> wrote:
> 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
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