What CMS does El Pais use?

[mr_nabo]

I've been looking around at various big sites I like (BBC, Guardian.co.uk, El Pais etc.) and trying to figure out what CMS they are using or whether it's a custom build.

I've been informed that the BBC is a custom-built CMS, but as I'm only used to using Open Source CMSs, I'd be very interested to know whether this is the standard for the bigger guys out there or whether they almost always tailor-make their sites.

ALso, one of the things I've been told is that bigger sites don't use php & mysql, which I think is crap because I've seen that Facebook uses MySQL & PHP with Javascript along with other big sites.

I work part-time for an organisation that uses Plone (that comment on php-mysql was by a Plone advocate btw), which seems to have good workflow and is speedy when caching pages. However, it seems immensely complex in comparison to Joomla, Wordpress etc.

Because I'm always looking for a good flexible CMS for clients that won't confuse them, I find myself drawn to things like Wordpress, Drupal and had a dabble in Exponent (seems similar to modx at first glance).

So, it would be useful to know what the more professional of you do when you get higher up the ladder and deal with bigger sites (I'm very much a beginner programmer, only modding a few things here and there, but is it all about building from scratch at the end of the day?).

Thanks for reading this far!

[jtara]

The BBC has apparently created their own Perl on Rails implementation. No word on whether this might be made publically-available in the future. But they have contributed a number of CPAN modules in the past:

[search.cpan.org...]

They've been quoted as saying that they use Ruby on Rails for internal projects, but they had to build Perl on Rails to scale-up to production speeds for their public sites.

Neither is a CMS - they are both MVC application frameworks. I suppose they've probably implemented some sort of CMS functionality on top of their framework, though.

[anallawalla]

I haven't heard of El Pais but I love their <meta name="revisit-after" content="1 days" /> :)

I was just wondering about C¦Net, which has both blogs and reviews. What CMS do they (or similar sites) use? Is a custom job faster/cheaper than buying a commercial enterprise-grade CMS and customising it?

[mr_nabo]

I'd also be interested to know that, but also what kinds of commercial CMSs are used commonly (I hear that many people are switching to OS or building their own CMS or, as jtara says, maybe they're going for MVC app frameworks?).