Drewery Publishing

“Plone” is a ready-to-run content management system that is built on the powerful and free Zope application server.” For the rest of us, Plone is a CMS, easy to set up, flexible, and provides a system for managing web content. This makes it an ideal tool for project groups, communities, web sites, and extranets and intranets.

Plone came to the attention of TDPG some months back while researching open source CMS tools endorsed for small community groups. Research showed that Plone helped groups in many countries? The usability of Plone is translated in at least 35 languages and has tools within it that manage multilingual content. Usability experts have made Plone easy and attractive for content managers to add, update, and maintain content.

Licensed under the GNU General Public License, the same license used by Linux, giving anyone the right to use Plone without a license fee, and to improve the product if you’re able. Not recommended for the newbie or the faint of heart, but nice to know there’s the chance of a learning experience that’s community-based. There’s a multitude of add-on products for Plone that add new features and content types. And, it’s technology neutral. Meaning that it plays nice with most database systems, open source and commercial, and runs on a vast array of platforms, like Linux, Mac OS X, and of course, Windows.

Not bad for a free application, would you agree? We hope to report back soon on a project we’re currently implementing using Plone. Can’t reveal the details yet, but more will surely follow.

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