Re: CMS - EzPublish or Plone

I agree.  My recommendation is PVSForPlone2.  It
integrates very nicely into the Plone UI.  BTW, that
is another distinction between Plone and eZ publish. 
Plone's management interface is merged with the public
facing site.  That is, an authenticated user with the
right permissions has access to edit pages as she
browses the site.  eZ publish has a separate
management interface.  Many people find in-site
editing intuitive but it can limit content-reuse. 
That is, a user may think of a piece of content only
within a the context of a certain location in the
site.  eZ publish has a model of nodes which represent
pages within the site hierarchy.  Content objects can
be placed in one or more nodes on the site.    

--- "K. Wasetis" <kwasetis-/[email protected]> 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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> > >
> >
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