A Plone consultant, Brad Bollenbach, has written a nice introduction to the open-source CMS, Plone (which is built on top of the Zope application server) in O'Reilly's ONLamp e-zine. The article describes Plone's ample feature set and ease of customizability, which tends to make it stand out relative to many other open-source alternatives. We think you still might need a Python guru like Bollenbach to help you with your implementation. The article doesn't stress it much, but note in particular Plone's notion of "members" rather than "users" -- a key differentator from the Zope Content Management Framework (CMF), and an important concept that can make Plone more or less suitable for certain use cases relative to the CMF. On the whole, though, we agree that Plone is good package, and getting better quickly. This article helps explain why...
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