Best CMS? (Page 1 of 2)

Not that I don't like it but...
any others?

(I just want many alternatives right now)

Maybe Textpattern. It really depends on what you call Company Website.

Textpattern is not a blog software.

Unless you have very specific needs, it should be quite right for what you describe.

I've seen many amazing sites done with Expression Engine. It comes in both free and paid versions, so it couldn't hurt checking it out.

a member of my local LUG told us about this cool website that allows you to try out just about all of the popular CMS / Blogs / BB (punbb included).  check out http://www.opensourcecms.com/

i'm just going to build my own cms on top of punbb.  seems like a great starting point to me.   :-)

OpenCMS has a lot going for it. I used to use it, but the template system drove me crazy. Looks like it's come a long way since I used it though.

Another very popular one is eZ publish.

Both drupal and Joomla are quite popular.
If you want to use them for a company website you should consider the following problems (which also go for most of the rest):
1. Can you use your design?
The answer is a simple no. All CMS systems (have to) follow a certain scheme, so with a little practice you can tell which website has been done with what CMS. This may be a OK for new projects or private sites where you can design after the CMS guidelines. But companies normally give you a layout to work with.

2. Has it all features the company wants?
Both drupal and joomla come with a lot of plugins/extensions that let you do almost anything you like. However, this often has performance impact so one has to be careful not to use too many.
On the other side, most CMS systems come with a wealth of features that you will never use, making the whole thing  a bit more cumbersome to handle.

3. Can it be updated?
For both of them the answer is "in theory, yes".
However, if you really do a lot of customization because your company needs it, especially in the script sources, you will have a big problem.

4. Are they secure?
Not more or less than all other OS applications. You must be ready for regular updates (see above...) then everything will be OK.

Conclusion: I don't know if I would ever use one of them (or any other) for a company job.
The alternative is, as mentioned, write your own.

As for the above comments on "rolling your own": It may be more work to write it but you will get this time back: First of all, you understand (hopefully) your own code a lot better, making it easier to change/update the scripts. Second, you will have exactly the features you need, so it will be faster to work with and easier to extend.
And for the security: Agreed, a custom made script will probably have more leaks than a big public one where thousands look at the code.
But this is also their weakness: A script that nobody knows the source of may have holes but nobody knows about them. This leaves potential hackers to guess, a time consuming process that many are too lazy for.
Whereas bugs in OS apps appear on the internet, and then you have to update fast or you will fall victim for some bored teenies. Because you're just a google search away. 
So, in theory OS CMS systems are more secure, in practice I found that handmade ones are. Provided that you know what you're doing and don't leave your front door too wide open....

That's the point and click your way to a new look, move that block down, move this block to the other side, etc.

pMachine was one of the early systems I used that had a tag based metaphor. Regular XHTML, sprinkle a tag here and there for dynamic content and you had a site up.

For a designer, the tag based approach is the way to go. For a newbie, moving blocks around is really easy until you want to do something with your site that's outside the blocks, so to speak.

what is the type of company this will be used for? knowing that will help suggest which cms might be best for you.

some CMSes will be too much for what you need and some will not be enough. like PunBB, it's not for everybody or every situation. knowing what the company you are building the website for does will help determine what they need in a cms and therefore will eliminate the unnecessary ones leaving you with a clearer choice.

I like cmsmadesimple pretty well.  I have it running at the moment at http://www.teg.name as a test as I'm trying to upgrade our church's website (http://www.belviewumc.org) and we need a good way to manage content pages (info on youth groups, sunday school classes, etc). The church site currently uses a custom hack of "Custom Pages" from http://www.punres.org/desc.php?pid=165 but it's not that flexible or user-friendly.

Getting a user-friendly, integrated way to add content is a challenge because everyone has a different idea of user friendly Right now I'm going back and forth between using CMS Made Simple for content and PunBB for the forum and user stuff (and maybe trying to integrate the two down the road) or doing up my own version of the CMS Made Simple pages functionality as an add-in for PunBB so there is only one user database and one set of stylesheets to worry about. The add-in is being tested at http://forum.andrewteg.com if you're curious.

So for me content wise it's coming down to http://www.teg.name with punBB added on or http://forum.andrewteg.com which needs admin work but the front end is getting there.