rencke - 3:46 pm on May 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

You are not seriously proposing to base a major business / technology / development decision on a collection of forum posts are you?

You bet! This is WebmasterWorld, remember! :)

don't rule out existing systems unless you have extremely strong, specific reasons

Hmmm... Would these qualify as strong and specific?

1. Need to import existing 5000 static pages automatically or at least semi-automatically into CMS database.
2. Support for non Latin character sets including Russian, Japanese and Chinese.
3. Full control over directory and file names.
4. Online wysiwyg interface with top notch security for html illiterate translators and other content creators.
5. Clean compact code that validates.
6. CSS off page.

If there are existing systems that can handle this, then I guess that might be something to look into.