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Plone 2.0

Plone 2.0 has been released. Plone is a content management system built using Zope, an open source application server written in Python. It pulls together the Zope Content Management Framework with a number of other pieces to make a pleasant, standards-based, easy-to-use CMS. If I had to install a CMS at work right now, I'd choose Plone in a heartbeat.

The big down side, of course, is that it doesn't cost tens of thousands of dollars. Sorry about that.

This raises an advantage of open source that I don't raise nearly enough: cheap prototyping. Three years ago, we had a chance to install a Zope-based or other open source CMS at work but did not. In retrospect, this was a huge mistake: the process for which we delayed implementation ended up causing complete inaction. We would have done well to set up a low-cost interim solution. Free & open source software offers this opportunity far more easily than high-buck commercial competitors.