CMS recommendations?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 19:29, 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?

They are wrong. Or at least not accurate. Plone is a CMS. It is built on
Zope, which is a framework that could be made do anything. Zope in turn
is built on Python. There are a few other interfaces in there as well. 

Zope/Plone strive to separate content from layout.

So, it you use Zope direct, you need to build a bit to get a CMS. If you
use Plone, you get a CMS built on top of Zope. 

> 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 can install a Plone site in 30 minutes from download to availability.
In this site there can be users and all access control, multiple
language support, search, configuration and many default features.

I think the confusion is Zope vs. Plone. Install Plone (which will
install Zope for you) and you are ready.

Go to www.plone.org for more info.


> 
> Any thoughts appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
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