Comparing Drupal to Joomla, WordPress and Typo3 had the focus on this day one...
WordPress and Typo3 were thoroughly showcased by their "official representatives" - professionals dedicated to the two platforms/systems. Joomla and Drupal was showcased by a German guy*, who also has authored books on both - at developer level for both systems.
Conclusions
- A casual webuser, fed-up with the limitations of Facebook, MySpace and other hosted "blogger-solutions", are quite well served by WordPress
- WordPress can be made to implement large sites, although is is NOT recommended!
- Joomla is a bit of a legacy CMS system, quite capable, but marred by too many workflows that could well be improved, but are VERY integral to Joomla, so probably won't be. Joomla is ONLY CMS not to currently include image-processing - Scaling, thumbnailing and soforth!
- Drupal is great for websites, of pretty much any size, but the installation-process is tedious/overcoming for most newbies. Drupalgardens.com may well serve as good starting point for WordPress-converts that want a free hosted Drupal-website.
Drupal has, as a competing CMS, many things to learn in simplifications from WordPress!!! This is very clear! - Typo3 is by far the most advanced system of the four, but as seen from a non Typo3-tech's aspect, the system is just too daunting, also in everyday use for administrators. Typo3 also has a very ambitious upgrade-path, and no particular support is given to assist the vital extension-developers in keeping up with "the curve", other than backwards-compatibility features.
*: Will insert real name, when I re-read it...
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