[Michael Morris]

Originally Posted by Delphiprogrammi

joomla is full of security holes you should not use that unless you want your server flooded with exploiting attempts

One of the main reasons vJoomla uses vbulletin to control session authentication.

Still, as of version 1.0.12 Joomla has no known security issues that I know of. Care to cite any, or are you simply spreading F.U.D. for the fun of it?

Originally Posted by emaij

I'm newbie and must decide which CMS to get if I go with vbulletin. Please tell me the pros and cons of each. I'm overwhelmed with info at the point and need advice. Thank you. What would you do?

Note - I am the author of vJoomla. I'll keep this free of bias as I can, but I want to be upfront about this.

Of the portal's vPortal is the only one I would certainly stay away from for the reason others have already given in this thread - no real updates for it have been done in 3 years. That leaves three.

vBAdvanced / CMPS
Advantages: This is vbulletin's only native CMS at present. This means all it's modules will work without compatibility issues arising out of bridging techniques. The product has had solid support over it's history and will continue to enjoy it I believe.
Disadvantages: Very small pool of modules when compared to Drupal or Joomla! vBadvanced still holds static pages in the template library which is, frankly, an odd place at best to put them, and a terrible spot if you need to have multiple people working on them. There is no timed publishing of content items.

Drupal
Advantages Drupal has the best taxinomy / content sorting system I've ever seen in any CMS. It's reasonably easy to install and setup. Version 5 has, I've been told, considerably cleaned up the module install, deinstall process. However vbDrupal has some compatibility issues with a handful of modules last time I checked. I also do not know if vbDrupal is on Drupal 5 yet or not. If it isn't I would hold off on installing it until it bridges to Drupal 5.
Disadvantages Drupal 4's administration is nightmarishly complex compared to either of the other two CMS systems listed here. Also, the strength of Drupal is in it's blogs - yet Jelsoft is getting ready to release a blog extension that may outperform any of the current solutions in this manner.

vJoomla
Advantages Joomla has, hands down, the most powerful component/module library of any of the three CMS systems listed here. It's backend administration is easy and intuitive to use as well.
Disadvantages:vJoomla is in beta -- and how many of the modules and components will actually run with it remains to be seen. Even when it does see release sometime near the end of next month it will be in the shadow of Joomla 1.5. Joomla 1.5 is rebuilt from the ground up and promises some real performance enhancements, but vJoomla will lag about 6 months behind. Finally, as a project in it's infancy vJoomla have the support base either of the other two projects here have - though Joomla itself has help files and support to make up for this somewhat.