[OT] Plone

[bobb]

Just 'cause it's cool doesn't mean it's not difficult...  I think (thanks to
tracebacks) it's very easy to debug, though.
Zope w/ Plone, by itself CAN be a slam dunk (like Franz Says above), but
extending it takes knowledge.
Zope has a long learning first gear, so to speak.
There's alot that CAN go on.  Alot of people have written products that sit
on top of it.
The biggest problem I find is the lack of documentation IMO.
The community is the best, though.
You don't need CMS for content management.  It all depends on what you want
to do.

Zope is a framework.  You still have to build the house, though.  Plone
takes care of alot of that out of the box.
You may not need Plone, you may not even need zope CMS, either.

bobb


"flupke" <flupke at nonexistingdomain.com> wrote in message
news:6ukic.84257$cd.5573763 at phobos.telenet-ops.be...
> Hi,
>
> i've read some user comments on Zope. As was to be expected some say
> it's cool, others says it's difficult and not easy to debug.
> I would use Plone as CMS for our intranet which will also be a platform
> for our tools. Does plone make it even more difficult to get going or does
> it
> hide some of the difficulties of Zope?
> I'm kind of in a dillema here, the more i read about Python, the more i
like
> it. As it seems mod_python/FCGI is a good combo to bring Python power
> to the web but since they want a CMS and i don't have time to write one
> from the ground up, i'm thinking of using Plone.
> I have my doubts about Zope especially from the viewpoint
> of administration. I will have to maitain the systems where it runs on
also.
>
> Any comments?
> flupke
>
>
>