You are just starting your web site. And you came upon two web tools - Mambo and PostNuke, both having numerous users and excellent recommendations. In this article we discuss which platform can suit your needs better.

First, Mambo is a content management system, while Postnuke is a C3MS: Community + Content + Collaborative Management System. If you look for easy site-building and management, you better choose Mambo. If you plan to have a site where there will be communication among the members through comments and posts, PostNuke is the better choice.

PostNuke is older than Mambo. In the software world this means it has much fewer "bugs" in its code. Additionally, at the open source market, older and more popular platforms are more sophisticated, with more features and add-on components. Well, that was the case a year and a half ago - PostNuke was the more advanced tool, with more modules and fewer bugs. But since then Mambo has made great progress. Mambo is the fastest developing open source content management tool. It has a wide community of developers working on it and its modules.

Mambo focuses on having a lightweight and efficient core that makes it easier for anybody to extend its functionality through custom components and modules that directly serve their needs. PostNuke, on the other hand, is an electronic toolbox allowing you to build a dynamically generated web site. PostNuke allows a community of users to interact with the content so they can call it their own.

Well, that is a quite personal question. Many people would choose Mambo for its sunny outlook, while others like the simple, neat PostNuke default template.

From a post at Mambers.com:

"When you ask a stranger to choose between the name Mambo and Postnuke , what do you think he would choose :D ??"

Funny, but after all more than 80% of our purhcase choices are emotionally biased. So, you may stop reading this article, look at Mambo and PostNuke and simply follow your feelings. Once you make your choice, you can start reading the article again and find rational arguments to support it.

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