Re: CMS - EzPublish or Plone

I have been working with eZ Publish and Plone.  Both
are in the top tier of open source CMS but they are
very different applications.  

Both are:
* Commercially supported
* Well documented with professionally written books
available
* Widely used (eZ publish more in Northern Europe)
* Well managed and stable

Plone starts out (from the basic install) as a kind of
collaborative workspace which, through skins, you can
make into a regular website.  As a collaborative
workspace, Plone excels at handling binary files with
good metadata support, and features like discussions
threads around a document and  very powerful workflow
model.  Plone sits on top of Zope.  To adapt Plone to
your needs, you will learn Zope's Page Template
language TAL and METAL and a little bit of Python.  

eZ publish starts out as a pure web CMS.  The workflow
model is not as elaborate as Plone's but is powerful
enough for most basic uses.  eZ Publish comes with 20
content types which can be put together to assemble
pages.  To configure eZ Publish you will need to know
PHP and eZ publish's scripting language.  eZ publish
has a sophisticated versioning/multi-language
capability but Plone does not.

Hope this helps, feel free to ask me more specific
questions.  Also, if you need help with this project,
my company (Optaros:  www.optaros.com) specializes in
helping clients select and implement open source
content management solutions (
http://www.optaros.com/solutions_content.html ).

--- Ann Sofie Kaalen <annsk-/[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> we have been evaluating several CMS for our upcoming
> intra - and internet project, and have landed on two
> candidates: EzPublish or Plone.
> 
> Anyone have any experiences with these two, and have
> any recommendations? We would like to choose the CMS
> which works well for both intra- and internet.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Cheers,
> Ann Sofie
> 
> 
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