The comment earlier that Plone only can handle small sites is completely refuted by facts. There are some seriously big sites using Plone, such as Novell.com, CIA.gov, Akamai's website, etc. As an example, I know for a fact that http://www.discovermagazine.com/ (Discover Magazine's website) got nearly 100,000 site visitors just yesterday and gets over 1.5 million page views per month currently.
Bottom line, Plone is really powerful stuff. If you are doing a small rinky-dink site, it might be overkill (depending on what you want to do), but if you are building a site that needs strong workflow, security, internationalization, standards compliance, scalability, good usability for non-technical staff, automatic related content indexing, integrated search, or any other feature used in a modern high-end website, you could do a heck of a lot worse than Plone.
For the record, this contest was done by Discover Magazine, which is NOT the same thing as Discovery Channel.
One additional note on the DiscoverMagazine.com website that could be of interest to Slashdot readers is that it was built on an open source content management system - Plone.
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Atkins website (http://www.atkins.com) is also a Plone site that gets a lot of traffic - millions of page views each month.
The comment earlier that Plone only can handle small sites is completely refuted by facts. There are some seriously big sites using Plone, such as Novell.com, CIA.gov, Akamai's website, etc. As an example, I know for a fact that http://www.discovermagazine.com/ (Discover Magazine's website) got nearly 100,000 site visitors just yesterday and gets over 1.5 million page views per month currently. Bottom line, Plone is really powerful stuff. If you are doing a small rinky-dink site, it might be overkill (depending on what you want to do), but if you are building a site that needs strong workflow, security, internationalization, standards compliance, scalability, good usability for non-technical staff, automatic related content indexing, integrated search, or any other feature used in a modern high-end website, you could do a heck of a lot worse than Plone.
For the record, this contest was done by Discover Magazine, which is NOT the same thing as Discovery Channel. One additional note on the DiscoverMagazine.com website that could be of interest to Slashdot readers is that it was built on an open source content management system - Plone.