JimC;195008 Wrote: > We're definitely looking at Open Source, rather than commercial. It's > not really about the cost -- it's about trying to stay consistent with > our philosophy of development and because, frankly, it think > intelligently built Open Source software ends up working better in the > long run. The accelerated pace of change in web technologies just > exacerbates the problem of keeping up in a commercial environment. >
That's a very good attitude, and I definitely agree with you here. JimC;195008 Wrote: > > My goal is to be able to provide easier access to content updating, as > opposed to creating a whole new hierarchy for navigation. Also, we > need to be able to better support localization and that's an area that > CMS really helps simplify the process of deployment. > Plone has excellent multilingual support on all levels, and had multilingual support from the start, not added as an afterthought, which is all too common in most other CMSes. JimC;195008 Wrote: > > We get a pretty hefty amount of traffic, so I also want to make sure > whatever we use can handle the load and remain responsive. That's the > biggest concern I have for a CMS system -- I haven't seen an Open > Source option that has the same capabilities as commercial packages in > areas like load balancing, failure across servers, etc. > Plone has tight integration with Squid (invalidation of pages on the Squid end when you edit something on the Plone side of things, etc), and several options exist for clustering and fail-over (it actually comes configured as a cluster out-of-the-box to make use of multiprocessor CPUs that are so common these days). bergek;195015 Wrote: > > My biggest criticism on most of the CMSes I have tried is that it is > often not straightforward to create an hierarchical menu structure that > is easily updateable. This is how Plone operates by default. Using hierarchical menu structures, that is. Disclaimer: I'm one of Plone's founders, so I'm obviously biased. Some friends (that adore their slimdevices) sent me this thread, and I'd be happy to answer any in-depth questions you may have. -- limi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ limi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11181 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34468 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
