Re: CMS - EzPublish or Plone

Aw shucks. I can heartily recommend PVSForPlone2 since we're the ones  
that created that product ;-)

This is the first time that I've seen anyone make reference to it.

David
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David Boroditsky
Emergence by Design


On 30-Aug-05, at 4:15 PM, K. Wasetis wrote:

> Seth,
>
> I'd agree that Plone does offer only light version
> control/rollback capabilities (the 'undo' link/tab)
> out-of-the-box, but thought I'd clarify:
>
> Plone does offer versioning and  multi-lingual /
> internationalization tools as 'add-on' products that
> do not accompany the default Plone install.
>
> You may want to look at the LinguaPlone, CMFEdition,
> and PVSForPlone2.
>
>
> To Ann's original question, I'd say that as long as
> you work with a vendor that's proficient in the tool,
> you're likely to have success with either CMS - they
> both provide a good framework to build on.
>
> I've personally implemented Plone as a collaboration
> portal tool for thousands of users that are medical
> association members, and it's been very well received
> as a platform.  Very easy to administer, support,
> enhance, for non-techies to use, etc.
>
> I've also helped one of the largest U.S. media
> companies use the Plone CMS interface as a means of
> managing content that is served on multiple
> public-facing, high-volume sites that look nothing
> like the Plone CMS - these sites look like whatever
> graphical design the web designers dreamed up.
>
> So, I've seen it be successful in both situations.  In
> my experience, Plone's workflow capabilties are far
> more than what is needed for publishing a public
> website, but are exactly what's needed for creating
> custom workflows for an intranet/extranet site
> (trigger email notifications, move/copy objects,
> complex approval chains, etc.)  Other open source
> tools won't come close for your WF needs on the
> intranet app.  Even some commercial tools can't
> compare.
>
> For high-volume sites, especially those with
> personalization to the logged in user, expect to have
> an EXPERT in whatever technology (Zope versus
> PHP/MySQL) you select.  No tool is a magic bullet on
> this one - perhaps this isn't a concern for you,
> though.
>
> Cheers and best of luck!
>
> -Ken
>
> --- Seth Gottlieb <sggottlieb-/[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> 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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