More and more larger customers are coming in to our pratice. Clients have questions like multi domain CMS, i.e. having multiple websites in 1 CMS installation. Also better user rights management and lots of exra's like versioning etc... That's why I went into typo3 which is a powerfull CMS which can handle these features. Typo3 has also its own template language (typoscript) and it is possible to write extensionsyourself, so it is also a bit of a framework.

However I never have done any research into larger CMS's. So I am wondering is typo3 the ultimate choice? Or do others have other choices for larger (enterprise) organisations.

I heard a lot from expression engine and this CMS looks well but I thought it was not as powerful as typo3. So, which (commercial) CMS's can compete with typo3?

I mentioned it in another thread, but I'm a RedDot fan... been using it for the past year and it covers everything you've mentioned above - it'll publish multiple projects to whatever FTP path (or local path) you want, versioning and rights management is nice and powerful - plus they're easy to set up and maintain.

You can write extensions yourself, or there are plenty available for the system, depending on the vendor you go to.

One of the best advantages I found with it is that you can publish as ASP, PHP or flat (x)html - so you can run your normal server-side scripts really easily, and you don't need to be dependent on any one vendor. Plus there's translation management, good asset management features, and it's easy for content editors to get the hang of. Project variants - different templates for the same content, or different content in the same template - are very easy to administer, which makes producing an RSS feed or print/high contrast versions a cinch should you need them.

Problems - it's pretty resource-heavy on the server, and certainly the version I was using had very limited functionality in FireFox/on Macs, which can make previewing pages a pain.

Happy to answer any specific questions about my experience with it if you've got them.

http://www.reddot.com

The other which was considered when I was looking at enterprise CMS was Immediacy. Fairly similar functionality if I remember correctly - to be honest I've been so immersed in RedDot since starting to use it I've forgotten... :)

www.immediacy.net