Compare BackBee vs. Joomla!

BackBee is a content management system from the company Lp Digital. The software is Open Source and released under the GPL3 License. BackBee uses multiple Symfony components for core functions.

Joomla! is one of the big three PHP CMSes. Currently it uses only a single component from the Symfony project. Joomla remains a strong contender with a large number of users and extensions.

• Great user experience with in-place editing
• Contemporary implementation without 
• Backed by a company

• Large developer and user base
• Plenty of ready made extensions available
• Tried and tested basic concepts

• Limited adoption outside of France
• Custom implementation, Symfony in components
• Missing power user features like multilanguage and multisite

• Administration can be confusing
• Lack of focus, tries to do everything
• Codebase is a mix of old and new