O'Reilly Interview with the Plone Founders

Alexander Limi writes "Just in time for some light weekend reading, O'Reilly's OSDir.com has published a byte-sized interview with the two founders of Plone. This is a nice follow-up to the earlier discussion on Slashdot, and covers a lot of the unanswered questions people directed to us earlier as the surprise winners of the O'Reilly COMDEX competition."

Comments

Re:A bit telling

[Malcontent]

While I agree that plone is better documented then zope I disagree that it's "easy".

Zope is just confounding. Plone makes it easier to get some things done. But sooner or later you are going to have to create a template or a script and then you'll be scratching your head and saying "wtf".

When I was first using plone it would take me hours to find where some text on the screen was being produced or where to go to change it. I am still perplexed about where the actions for the user bar are for example. And of course sooner or later everybody will get a visit from the "spammish aquisition".

I am waiting to see what zope3 and plone 2 are going to be like. I hope they make it easier for mere mortals to use them.

Re:What's Plone?

[dracvl]

Actually, the popular MAESTRO Mars Rover site is also a Plone site.

Does anybody else find it slightly amusing that Plone is running on Sun's network - on Sun hardware no less - and no Java in sight? ;)

Zope - a dream come true.

[Qbertino]

I've been dealing with Zope for quite some time now. What has been said here and in the interview about the weedy unfinished stuff and the (still) inconsistent documentation of Zope and it's Products ('Product' is a technical term in the Zope Appserver) is generally true.
If you don't have a knack at OOP *and* aren't willing to read through some messy, redundant and unfinished third party code experiments you're gonna have some hard time getting going with it.
Beyond that Zope is nothing less than the ultimate refrence for the way all server side stuff will be done in the future. Zope comes with a fully integrated object relational Database, runs with and on, what I call the fully GPLd equivalent to Java, Python and is an absolute breeze to develop with.
Technology wise Zope makes BEA, .Net, SunONE and IBM WebSphere look like some IE plugin in beta stage. Shure it can be a serious slowpoke on standard PC's, but nevertheless have I and some people I work with bet on Zope. When Zope - 3.0 is going to take a big step - reaches maturity in terms of documentation and community standards for developing, computers will be fast enough to make Zope the tool of choice for any server side thing one can think of.