Re: Why Plone?

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On May 27, 2003 08:58 am, tshooter91 wrote:
> OK.  I've been playing with Plone for about a week now.  I really like
> what I've seen so far, and think this definitely has the flexibility to
> do what I would want an intranet/extranet site to do.  I see that much
> of what plone has is available in the Zope CMF, so what's the point of
> using Plone?  Why not just install zope and the CMF Products that are
> needed?

Plone is much more than CMF in many respects. For example it's _much_more_ 
user friendly than default CMF. Plus you'll have lot's of goodies 
out-of-the-box. In general, as far as I can tell plone grows into something 
bigger built on top of CMF. So in your case it's the same as saying after 
awhile "why use CMF, it's built on Zope. Let's use plai Zope". 
So Plone is a perfect tool for rapid development and deployment. If you'd like 
"the hard way" - go for it. :)

Plus consider that plone little by little moves into it's own direction which 
is not quite the same as CMF even though they have much in common.

That was my perception of what's Plone - maybe somebody can correct me if I'm 
wrong?

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Dmitry Makovey
Web Systems Administrator
Athabasca University
(780) 675-6245
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