 Homepage: www.Plone.org
Latest Version: 3.0
View Demo: http://plone.org/about/movies
HistoryThe Plone project was started in 1999 by Alan Runyan,
Alexander Limi, and Vidar Andersen. It has quickly grown into one of
the most popular and powerful open-source content management systems in
the world. In 2004, the Plone Foundation was formed to handle
development, marketing, and legal issues for the roughly 100 developers
that make up the Plone Team. The Plone community has hosted a
conference every year since 2003; this year it is held in Naples, Italy (October 8-12). Plone is a content management framework that works hand-in-hand
and sits on top of Zope, a widely-used Open Source web application
server and development system. To use Plone, you don't need to learn
anything about Zope, however to develop new Plone content types, a
small amount of Zope knowledge is helpful.
Plone is built from the ground up with focus on internationalization
(over 35 translations are currently available) and accessibility for
sight and motor impaired individuals.
Zope itself is written in Python, an easy-to-learn, widely-used and
supported Open Source programming language. Python can be used to add
new features to Plone, and used to understand or make changes to the
way that Zope and Plone work.
By default, Plone stores its contents in Zope's built in
transactional object database, the ZODB. There are products and
techniques, however, to share information with other sources if
required, such as relational databases, LDAP, filesystem files, etc.
Plone runs on Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and many other
platforms; "everything included" installers are available for Windows
and Mac OS X, and RPM packages are available for Linux, as well as
being available in the packaging systems of most Linux distributions.
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