16 Aug
2007
16 Aug
'07
9:54 p.m.
- Support/Community - there are 167 companies from 44
countries listed
at plone.net who offer commercial support. I know there are a lot
more.
A lot of them help to improve Plone and/or write add ons.
- Maturity - see the number of websites and how prominent some of them
are that run with Plone (<http://plone.net/sites>).
- Documentation - several books are available, you will find about 250
documents alone at <http://plone.org/documentation> (useful and
comprehensive, most of them up2date (what’s not the default for a
community driven Open Source project). You can join an annual
conference
(325 attendees registered 2006).
I can hardly do anything about these points, other than using Pier
for all sites I am building myself (which I already do, of course).
This is also why Pier exists in the first place and where most
features come from.
Parts that are more related to functionality where I
see a gap:
- Internationalization - Plone supports over 35 languages including
right-to-left languages out of the box when it’s installed. It has a
good i18n framework and with LinguaPlone you can add the same
conent in
whatever language you need.
If people provide translations that would be certainly a nice addition.
- Availability of more than 100 add on products that
can be used
from an
end user (you don’t need to be a developer). Examples are full
featured
web shops, message board systems, registration systems, newsletter
integration (details at <http://plone.org/products>).
There is already a big number of extensions. Have a look at my
proposal [1] for the ESUG Innovation Awards 2007 [2]. And don't
forget to vote for Pier, this will certainly help to further improve
it ...
[1] http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/Reports/Reng07c.pdf
[2] http://www.esug.org/conferences/
15thinternationalsmalltalkjointconference2007/
innovationtechnologyawards/submissions/
- Full-text Searching - all the content is searchable
even Word or
OpenOffice documents and PDF files (with add ons under Linux also for
Excel and PowerPoint and other file types).
There is already a full-text search. It does not included uploaded
files though. If somebody would implement readers for those strange
binary formats, that would certainly be an easy thing to add to the
search results.
Cheers,
Lukas
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Lukas Renggli
http://www.lukas-renggli.ch