CMS recommendations?

[Kurt Wall]

On Wednesday 22 June 2005 13:29, Michael Hipp enlightened us thusly:
> 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?

Zope is the platform for building a CMS; Plone exists on top of Zope
and provides the CMS apparatus. It's still up to you to flesh it out.
We're using Plone for the TimeSys Developer Exchange 
(http://developer.timesys.com/).

Plone's learning curve has been steep vis-a-vis customization, but I 
wouldn't have been able to get nearly as far if all I had was Zope.

Kurt