[nzlug] Plone

[Greg Fawcett]

I have experience of Mambo, Joomla, Wordpress and Plone. Plone is harder to
set up, and harder to learn, but that is because it is more powerful. It is
well written, with strong regard for standards, and hence is easy to make it
adhere to the NZ e-government guidelines.

Wordpress would be my next choice, and Mambo/Joomla last - they are chaotic
bundles of PHP code that work for small hobby sites, but I wouldn't trust
them for anything of any substance.

Plone is written in Python which makes hosting harder to find, whereas the
others are PHP. This also affects custom development, personally I prefer
Python, but PHP is easier to hack.

For an independent measure of the quality of each system, go to
http://cve.mitre.org/cve/cve.html and use their names as keywords. Joomla
gets 183, Mambo 159, Wordpress 126, and Plone....4. And only one of those
affected the current version (Plone 3).

I host Plone on my own server, so I can't comment on NZ hosts - let me know
if you are interested in a quote for hosting it.

Cheers!
Greg.

On 29/02/2008, Andrew Errington <a.errington at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks again for the Wiki suggestions and advice.  It may be that I now
> have to advise the organisation about a full CMS (and I still wants a
> Wiki).
>
> In the light of very little research, and the uber-convenience of Debian,
> I have downloaded and set up Plone and (almost) zwiki on my laptop.
> Actually, my little research has shown Plone to be well respected and a
> worthy choice for almost any sized organisation.
>
> Does anyone here have any experience installing, maintaining or
> administering Plone?  Anyone tried it and rejected Plone?  Why?  Have you
> found that hosting providers for Plone are easy to find (in NZ) or is
> Plone shunned?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
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