What does joomla 1.7 lack in comparison with drupal 7

Drupal is considered 开发者_如何学Cas more powerful among the two. However, with release of joomla 1.6 some new features have been added like Nested Categories, Granular ACL System, Tableless Core Components etc which were lacking in comparison with drupal previously. So is there any point in using drupal now?

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In my opinion Drupal is better for more complicated sites...Joomla (and Wordpress) can be extended to function as more complex websites but their great strength is that out of the box they can provide the majority of functionality that's needed for a basic website; essentially Joomla is more of an 'off-the-shelf' solution while Drupal is a lot more powerful (it's entire makeup is extensible and modular) but requires more configuration and a slightly steeper learning curve.

Check out this article, very good comparison of Drupal 7 and Joomla 1.6. The line that sticks out more than any other to me is:

Drupal 7.0 remains the more powerful framework and indeed extends its lead.

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Thats a little bit the issue. I would say that Drupal is inferior to Joomla due to its lack of object orientation, while most of the shortcomings of Joomla can be solved by the huge number of extensions available.

I would say that there is no good answer to this question and the best solution for you will be to test both systems and see which one suits you better.