vBulletin CMS vs. Joomla
 

I am seriously looking at vBulletin because I know it well enough, but Joomla has a huge assortment of extentions and modules. Does vB and is there a list of what is vailable? In my case specifically audio and flash video players that may be inserted into the cms.

Vbulletin is not yet a fully featured CMS, but it is making progress.

There are a few quirks, like what is the difference between the CMS and Blog?
When you promote something to the CMS, how do you avoid duplicate content?
The CMS is very hard to tweak as well.

If you want to build a site around your forum, the vbulletin cms is not a bad choice. However if you want a site that just happens to have a forum, I would pick a more full featured CMS like Joomla.

Well of course it is vBulletin!

WordPress + bbPress?

Just going for the ad inmpression, huh?

I moved from joomla to vb4 cms. feature and user friendly wise joomla is 100% better than vbcms. the only up side is with joomla 1.5 your site would just keep slowing down as time went along and you installed new plugins. the upside using vbcms was that everything was already there, no bridging and other headache's. And it looks quite decent as well. So we said oh what the heck :)

Could someone give me a URL(s) of vbCMS in action like a Joomla site?

We have a joomla front end and we had the CMS installed as a news section, but the CMS has proved to be a hideous piece of software, everyone, who used it on our site hated it, and we will be dumping it at the next site update. To be perfectly honest, we may dump VB4 too, as there are still lots of bugs and issues being left while they add lots of new and pointless features.

Joomla isn't without problems, but once you get to grips with how it all works, it is a lot easier, and has a more comprehensive feature set, at least in my opinion anyway!

lol compaired to vBulletin is joomla cheese with big holes mostly so called "joomla components" are a major source off security holes though i agree with you that IB should focus on fixing existing bugs instead of pointless new features like skimlinks or vertical response

Thank you all for your candid remarks. It doesn't make my decision easier, but you are being honest and that is apprecaited. I am tempted to just write my own front-end.