Re: Why Plone?

On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 10:58 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?
>
I tried doing an out-of-the-box CMF site for my school (with minimal 
tweaks) about a year and a half ago.  It was a user interface disaster. 
  If you wanted to spend a long time creating your own skins and 
cleaning up the UI, you could probably just use regular CMF.  But there 
just isn't a lot of motivation for not using Plone.

Moving into the future, I'd also guess that the majority of cool CMF 
products will be built specifically for Plone.

--Tom



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