please name some open source (or lower priced) alternatives that support: comments on documents, database functionality to a similar level, publishing websites, scripting for properties. I'm very curious!
Heh. I remember back in the comp.lang.perl.misc days, where newbies would show up and ask "What's the best IDE for Perl development" and all the longtime greybeards would reply "Unix".
I was going to say git, but really you need the whole environment.