After reviewing the DotNetNuke starter kit at the Portal starter kit, we decided that the Portal Starter Kit fit more what we were trying to do.  We needed pretty much an informational website for our distributors.  Dot Net Nuke was more of a community based site while Portal starter kit was more of a true portal.  I have been trying to find people who still use the Portal starter kit because I need to find a couple of "upgrades/enhancements".  Can anyone help?  TIA

I think he's talking about the MSDN Portal Starter Kit.

Would'nt have been my first choice (or even second) for an informational site.

While DNN will happily handle a community site it will also happily deal with an informational site though it is not a Content management System per se. I'd have probably went with AxCMS instead (which I think has some birth in a starter kit if memory serves me). AxCMS is supposed to be a strong item from the little I have read, I have not had time to download it and mess with it (it is free). The only CMS work I've done with MS technologies stems from Ektron and some lesser items, most my CMS work has been in Unixland's.

I'd be curious to hear if anyone has played with AxCMS however.

Maybe this is off-topic, but I'm taking the liberty, since this is a 'chat about it' forum...

Can you elaborate a little more why DNN is not a CMS per se, and what characteristics would make it so (or takes it of the CMS category)? I'm not disagreeing with you, on the contrary... In the early CMS days I did a lot of research about it for my company, and I thought it was not the same thing as a portal. Than the market developed, and almost every portal is now called CMS (for instance, the cmsmatrix site lists far more portals then real CMS). I thought that the differences became more and more subtle as portals became more and more CMS capable, to a point that it didn't matter anymore. First I'd list versioning, syndication and document management as CMS features not present in portals, but these are common portal features (or add-ins) nowadays. But you seem to still feel this differentiation as pertinent, so can you please share your point of view?

Also, I'd visited AxCMS site, and it looked to me more of a portal than a CMS. So what's the point in taking it instead of DNN? (no intention to raise product battles here).

Thanks.