Re: Plone as Intranet solution with large file storage

dieter wrote:
> Eggert Ehmke <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have to create a searchable file storage for a small enterprise. They want to 
>> store some 100 000 Dokuments of different type (doc, pdf, other) and be able to 
>> search for certain keywords. Different user groups with different access rights 
>> exist. The files shall also be visible in the file system.
>>
>> Can this be done using Plone as an intranet server?
> 
> A client does something like this - but is not happy and wants
> to move the documents out of Plone into a separate system.
> His main complaints:
> 
>   *  support for binary document formats is limited
>      (quality of html previews not high enough; some formats
>      not/not well supported)
> 
>   *  mass imports tend to clock down Plone
> 
>   *  editing two cumbersome
> 
>> Did someone do something 
>> similar? Are there better solutions?
>>

That's why a solution like Alfresco is the way to go.
Plone is a WebCMS is a WebCMS is a WebCMS and it is not
an office document repository aka DMS. I can only
recommend not to listen to people trying to sell you Plone
as a DMS. Plone is the wrong tool here.

<popcorntime/>
-aj






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