Mambo and Drupal are both feature-rich leading Open Source CMS (Content Management System).曼波和drupal都是功能丰富的领先的开放源代码细胞质雄性不育（内容管理系统） 。 We presently use Mambo on our我们目前所使用曼波对我们的 corporate site公司网站 . 。

Mambo has always been the poster boy for ease of installation and newbie friendliness, not to mention the marketing dollars of Miro.曼波一直是海报，男童为便于安装和新手的友善，更遑论市场营销美元的米罗。 Mambo was largely driven by Miro along with a core of volunteer developers.曼波，主要是驱使下，米罗，随着一个核心的义工发展。

Drupal has been a community driven project from start. drupal一直是社区驱动的项目从开始。 However as purely community driven projects go, it didn’t have much advertising dollars to spend.但是，作为纯粹的社区推动的项目去，它并没有多少广告美元花费。 So it has always been a low key presence.因此，它一直是低调的存在。 However that doesn’t reflect on its true capabilities.不过，这并不反映其真实能力。

Miro recently took control over Mambo causing the unhappy “core-team” to米罗最近采取了控制曼波造成不愉快的“核心团队” fork Mambo交岔路口曼波 . 。

In this light it is interesting to review the differences between two leading Open Source Content Management System.在这轻有趣的是，检讨之间的差异两个领先的开放源代码内容管理系统。

Xaneon, a company specializing in developing mambo extensions, has written an xaneon ，一间公司，专门在发展中国家曼波扩展，写了一 excellent article citing the reasons they switched to Drupal优秀的文章引用的理由，他们转而drupal . 。

The key points from the article are:要点文章如下：

Mambo has better look and feel and easy to configure for the first time.曼波具有较好的外观和感觉，并容易配置，为第一次。 It has better add-on(extensions, modules, templates etc.) management.它具有较好的添加对（扩展，模块，模板等）的管理。
BTW: This is something which many Open Source products need to improve upon including WordPress which powers this site.的BTW ：这是很多开放源代码产品需要改善后，包括在WordPress ，其中的权力，这个网站。

Mambo is not very plugin-author friendly as it doesn’t provide very many hooks into the core.曼波是不是很插件作者的友好，因为它不会提供很多挂接到的核心。 I think however that can be easily remedied.我想，但可以很容易纠正。

Drupal is more cleanly designed with extensibility in mind and more flexible. drupal是更干净的设计在扩展性理念和更加灵活。

Drupal provides a standard high-level API for developing extensions and making it easier to extend Drupal in a standard way with uniform look-and-feel. drupal提供了一个标准的高级别空气污染指数为发展中国家的扩展，使之更容易扩大drupal在一个标准的方式与统一的外观和感觉。

Drupal provides better support for internationalization through i18n module. drupal提供更好地支持国际化，通过i18n模块。

Drupal has better support of Search-Engine-Friendly URLs in core and through modules. drupal有更好的支持搜索引擎友好的URL的核心，并通过模块。

Drupal supports multiple sites with a single installation with fine-grained access control and ability to selectively share configuration settings and database tables. drupal支持多个网站与一个单一的安装与细粒度的访问控制和能力，有选择性地分享的组态设定和数据库表。

Drupal comes with better templating system. drupal来更好的模板系统。

The authors concluded that Drupal is much more productive in creating and managing multiple sites with unique look-and-feel.作者得出结论认为， drupal是更为生产力在创建和管理多个网站与独特的外观和感觉。

I am already experimenting with Drupal and I tend to agree with the conclusions above.我已经试验drupal ，我倾向于同意上述结论。