I thought we could have a discussion on alternate CMSes here, as no-one seemed to have any information on the day.

I've been trying SilverStripe (www.silverstripe.org) on my own personal site (www.alirobe.com) and have been mightily impressed with their early work. It's nowhere near as robust as Joomla in terms of the modules/widgets available, but it's got a much better overall design and incredibly flexible implementation (Probably because it's new). It's PHP5 only and 100% MVC. Requires getting into the details a bit more than Joomla. It has no built in templates for things like menus, opting instead to make it as easy as possible to create customised templates. That means you really have to know your HTML and CSS, and have a bit of programming knowledge to boot. It's an open-source commercially-backed project (no paid version) out of NZ. It won the Packt publishing 'most promising' award.

Anyone tested any other ones that are neat?