CMS recommendations?

[James McDonald]

Alma J Wetzker wrote:

> 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?
>>
>> 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 hear Good Things (tm) about Zope/Plone.  They are not a CMS any more 
> than 'C' and BASIC are applications.  You can _MAKE_ a CMS _USING_ 
> Z/P, just like you can make an application using 'C' or BASIC.  If 
> that is the level you are wanting to work at, you could do far worse 
> than Z/P.
>
> I would be greatly surprised if there were not some templates and 
> sample code to get you started and make the starting ramp a bit easier.
>
> I still can't get past the overloading of the CMS TLA, to me it means 
> Customer Management System, a method for wresting ownership of the 
> customer (i.e. $$$$) from the sales rep.  Much emotion tied up in 
> those little letters.
>
You mean something similar to CRM (Customer Relationship Management 
System)... Wow TLA's have become so ubiquitous in the information age 
you just about need a degree in TLA's to be sure you understand it...  :-)