CMS recommendations?

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Bill Campbell wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005, Michael Hipp wrote:
> >
> >>Can anyone recommend any CMSes (content management systems) I should
> >>evaluate?
> >>
> >>I'll be using it for my own stuff as well as providing it to clients as
> >>a way to keep them off of FrontPage (yech!).
> >>
> >>Needs to run with Linux and Apache. I'd prefer it was based on
> >>PostgreSQL and Python but I'll probably end up with MySQL and PHP or
> >>Perl. (Not that such is some great hardship.)
> >
> >
> > We've been using Zope and Plone for about a year now, and have
> > been very happy with it.  It's python based, and works with
> > postgresql, mysql, or any other database supported by python.
>
> Thanks. I keep hearing stuff like "Zope/Plone is not really a CMS, it's
> a platform for building a CMS". Could you offer any insight into that?

Becuase that's true.  Zope & Plone are frameworks, not content management
systems.

>
> No-one is saying such to criticize Z/P, but they seem to be saying that
> it takes a fair bit of work before you can get down to the business of
> building your site.

I use Movable type alot, and it runs fine with just about any DB & linux
distro.

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