CMS recommendations?

[Michael Hipp]

Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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.

I think I'll give Plone a try, if for no other reason than there are no less 
than 3 in-print books available about it. The "marketing" message on their 
site certainly indicates they view themselves as a top notch CMS: "Plone: A 
user-friendly and powerful open source Content Management System".

I plan to try 2 or 3 CMSes to at least get a feel for how they differ. It's a 
complex subject. This appears to be one of those things where once you pick 
one and put lots of your data in it, you're stuck with it for a long while.

Thanks to everyone who responded.

Michael