Comments on: A collaborative open source CMS – Part 1: Early Considerations http://theportableconsultant.com/blog/2005/10/24/a-collaborative-open-source-cms-part-1-early-considerations/ ECM infrastructure architecture... and unrelated matters. Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:58:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: pmh http://theportableconsultant.com/blog/2005/10/24/a-collaborative-open-source-cms-part-1-early-considerations/comment-page-1/#comment-5 pmh Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:19:09 +0000 http://theportableconsultant.com/blog/?p=15#comment-5 Jon, I couln't agree more! Plone is all that you say and more. It ranks very highly when analysed with Navica's Open Source Maturity Model - a benchmark for assessing the quality and stability of open source projects. In fact, I used a version of Plone for my open source repository at Objectis.org (see link on sidebar). But my current project is still in the proof-of-concept stage and a Zettai server, even at $15, is twice what I pay for a service that lets me install and compare any number of different PHP-based projects. You make a good point, though. Perhaps I will consider using the Objectis site and add Plone to the other projects I'm looking at. Thanks for your comment. -pmh Jon, I couln’t agree more! Plone is all that you say and more. It ranks very highly when analysed with Navica’s Open Source Maturity Model – a benchmark for assessing the quality and stability of open source projects.

In fact, I used a version of Plone for my open source repository at Objectis.org (see link on sidebar).

But my current project is still in the proof-of-concept stage and a Zettai server, even at $15, is twice what I pay for a service that lets me install and compare any number of different PHP-based projects.

You make a good point, though. Perhaps I will consider using the Objectis site and add Plone to the other projects I’m looking at.

Thanks for your comment.
-pmh

]]> By: Jon Stahl http://theportableconsultant.com/blog/2005/10/24/a-collaborative-open-source-cms-part-1-early-considerations/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Jon Stahl Tue, 25 Oct 2005 02:55:28 +0000 http://theportableconsultant.com/blog/?p=15#comment-4 I really think that you should look again at Plone-- over the long term, the fact that Plone hosting might cost a bit more than commodity LAMP hosting is more than made up for by the quality, power and extensibility of the Plone/Zope platform. Especially for document management and online publishing. And especially for non-technical end-users, where Plone's UI really shines. My organization, ONE/Northwest, has developed, launched and hosted about 45 Plone-powered sites for small grassroots nonprofit environmental organizations in the past year. We have found it feasible to put about 60 such sites on a moderately-powered server (2 GB RAM) and that's without much effort at Squid caching. We charge our clients $15/month for hosting a typical small site, which easily covers the cost of the server (hosted right now at Zettai), and leaves a bit left over for maintenance. We're expanding onto our second server this week, which will give us some room to grow even more and have more failover options. Bottom line: we don't see Plone as "too expensive" to deploy even for small sites. I really think that you should look again at Plone– over the long term, the fact that Plone hosting might cost a bit more than commodity LAMP hosting is more than made up for by the quality, power and extensibility of the Plone/Zope platform. Especially for document management and online publishing. And especially for non-technical end-users, where Plone’s UI really shines.

My organization, ONE/Northwest, has developed, launched and hosted about 45 Plone-powered sites for small grassroots nonprofit environmental organizations in the past year. We have found it feasible to put about 60 such sites on a moderately-powered server (2 GB RAM) and that’s without much effort at Squid caching.

We charge our clients $15/month for hosting a typical small site, which easily covers the cost of the server (hosted right now at Zettai), and leaves a bit left over for maintenance. We’re expanding onto our second server this week, which will give us some room to grow even more and have more failover options.

Bottom line: we don’t see Plone as “too expensive” to deploy even for small sites.

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