Dylan, I think the subway map has the right of it: Plone is at the confluence of open source, enterprise CMS, social & community CMS, and web publishing CMS. Plone is the only one occupying those three subway lines (four counting OSS).
At my day-job, we have a very small web team handling dozens of sites for a center with 280+ staff. We can't be experts at WordPress, SharePoint, Plone, Drupal, Joomla!, CommunityManager, and whatever soup of the day hits some manager's fancy. We need to have a generalized toolset that's very, very customizable so that we can use that toolset very effectively to solve a huge host of problems. Plone-Zope-Python with a heavy dose of CSS is that toolset. Plone leverages our investment in training and experience by letting our web team produce community collaboration sites, multi-language sites, embedded blogs, wikis, & discussion areas, and just plain static websites. Reducing the webmaster/developer role as much as practical lets content owners really own their content. Top that with a security and workflow model that PHP-based systems can't approach and you can see why we use Plone in our particular environment. What I see then is Plone wearing several hats. In my situation, I need lots of hats but I don't have time, staff, and funds to become expert at an entire hat rack full of different styles. I need secure, flexible, reliable, open source CMS technology that is based on a limited but powerful toolset. -- Karl Dylan Jay-5 wrote: > > My question is, where would you put Plone on that graph? > > And should we accept we need to position plone more clearly? > --- > Dylan Jay, Plone Solutions Manager > www.pretaweb.com > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/promoting-WPD-tp2461384p2493469.html Sent from the Evangelism mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Evangelism mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism
