Mambo and Drupal are both feature-rich leading Open Source CMS (Content Management System).曼波和drupal都是功能豐富的領先的開放源代碼細胞質雄性不育（內容管理系統） 。 We presently use Mambo on our我們目前所使用曼波對我們的 corporate site公司網站 . 。

Mambo has always been the poster boy for ease of installation and newbie friendliness, not to mention the marketing dollars of Miro.曼波一直是海報，男童為便於安裝和新手的友善，更遑論市場營銷美元的米羅。 Mambo was largely driven by Miro along with a core of volunteer developers.曼波，主要是驅使下，米羅，隨著一個核心的義工發展。

Drupal has been a community driven project from start. drupal一直是社區驅動的項目從開始。 However as purely community driven projects go, it didn’t have much advertising dollars to spend.但是，作為純粹的社區推動的項目去，它並沒有多少廣告美元花費。 So it has always been a low key presence.因此，它一直是低調的存在。 However that doesn’t reflect on its true capabilities.不過，這並不反映其真實能力。

Miro recently took control over Mambo causing the unhappy “core-team” to米羅最近採取了控制曼波造成不愉快的“核心團隊” 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.在這輕有趣的是，檢討之間的差異兩個領先的開放源代碼內容管理系統。

Xaneon, a company specializing in developing mambo extensions, has written an xaneon ，一間公司，專門在發展中國家曼波擴展，寫了一 excellent article citing the reasons they switched to Drupal優秀的文章引用的理由，他們轉而drupal . 。

The key points from the article are:要點文章如下：

Mambo has better look and feel and easy to configure for the first time.曼波具有較好的外觀和感覺，並容易配置，為第一次。 It has better add-on(extensions, modules, templates etc.) management.它具有較好的添加對（擴展，模塊，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 ：這是很多開放源代碼產品需要改善後，包括在WordPress ，其中的權力，這個網站。

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，因為它不會提供很多掛接到的核心。 I think however that can be easily remedied.我想，但可以很容易糾正。

Drupal is more cleanly designed with extensibility in mind and more flexible. drupal是更乾淨的設計在擴展性理念和更加靈活。

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提供了一個標準的高級別空氣污染指數為發展中國家的擴展，使之更容易擴大drupal在一個標準的方式與統一的外觀和感覺。

Drupal provides better support for internationalization through i18n module. drupal提供更好地支持國際化，通過i18n模塊。

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，並通過模塊。

Drupal supports multiple sites with a single installation with fine-grained access control and ability to selectively share configuration settings and database tables. drupal支持多個網站與一個單一的安裝與細粒度的訪問控制和能力，有選擇性地分享的組態設定和數據庫表。

Drupal comes with better templating system. drupal來更好的模板系統。

The authors concluded that Drupal is much more productive in creating and managing multiple sites with unique look-and-feel.作者得出結論認為， drupal是更為生產力在創建和管理多個網站與獨特的外觀和感覺。

I am already experimenting with Drupal and I tend to agree with the conclusions above.我已經試驗drupal ，我傾向於同意上述結論。