There's a few other options as far as CMS goes... paying a rent for a CMS sort of sucks really, I'd rather just buy it outright but 3,500 is a bit steep if you have no members yet... so I see where he's coming from.
Apex looks wonderful, I made a thread a while back, might help:
here
Other options are ElevatedX and there's another one that's also grey/orange and I believe has a fish in the logo I think, heh...