Plone 2.0: eWEEK Reviews, Raves About OS Software

securitas writes "eWEEK Labs' Jim Rapoza reviews open source Plone 2.0 Web publishing portal / content management software and raves about the Zope/Python-based system. He liked it so much it garnered an Analyst's Choice award, beating out a commercial portal suite, Traction's TeamPage 3.01, reviewed in the same issue. The Plone 2.0 release was mentioned a couple of weeks ago on Slashdot."

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Huh?

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I've just spent the past hour reading about Python - since that seems to be the recommended path to enlightenment when using Plone, but I just don't get it.

I've been writing software for 24 or so years, I've forgotten more languages than I can recall and I don't see any particular benefit in introducing myself to Python.

You may mark this off-topic, but I strongly suspect that the moment I want to do something that Plone cannot, I am required to use Python (and/or Zope).

Most of my development these days is in PHP - the language seems elegant, it talks to any database I care to use, has anything I can think of bolted in and for me it works.

Now I'm all for learning new skills, but as I said, I just don't get it. What is so special about Python and why should I care?

Commercial support matters?

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Normally, I'm happy with the community support you can find around an oss project, but some little jackass named vinsci actually just censored me in #plone.

Essentially, that makes it impossible to get assistance, since the docs are incomplete and out of date. With Plone, there is a small core of developers, and if you can't make friends with them, then you can expect no support.

Unless they can figure out some way to remove the thugs from the process, you may want to pass on plone, unless you want to be your own support team.