Plone or TurboGears for Intranet

[Yu-Xi Lim]

m.wanstall at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just wondering which technology would best suit the development of
> custom intranets in general, things that may be industry specific would
> need to be included (say for an industrial design company the addition
> of internal memos and even extrememly business specific apps such as
> simple inventory control reporting). The other big issue is ease of
> templating as the only Plone examples I've seen have seemed to
> basically use the original template or a slightly customised version of
> it so I'm wondering whether it would be quicker to build it from the
> ground up with TurboGears.
> 
> Any thoughts on the matter are greatly appreciated and any examples of
> EITHER used extensively in case studies or the like would be fantastic!
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 

For custom applications, you'd be better off looking at Plone's 
underlying Zope app server. As an alternative to TG, you may want to 
consider Django.

Memos and non-database apps would probably be okay with just Plone. In 
fact, for memos, design notes, developer documentation, you'd be best 
off considering a collaborative editing solution such as Wiki (of which 
there are numerous variants in any programming language you want).

Though some may suggest a single system to fit all needs, unless you 
require tight integration (e.g. memos reflect real-time inventory 
information), you'd probably do well deploying them as separate "best of 
breed" applications. You can customize the UI to make the differences 
less apparent.