Plone was awarded Best Other Open Source CMS for 2008. It is an open-source content management system (CMS) with a GPL license, owned by the Plone Foundation. Plone is standards-compliant, accessible, secure, easy to use, translated into many languages, well documented, and used by over 1,390 sites worldwide including BMC Software, Oxfam, Nokia, NASA, and others. It allows users to create websites, intranets, extranets, e-commerce sites, and more with collaboration and workflow features.
2. Plone? Wins 2008 Best Other Open Source CMS Award 7 November 2008
3. What Is Plone? ? ¡° An eWeek Labs Analyst's Choice award winner, this open-source product is one of the best solutions ¡ª period ¡ª for company portals and intranets.¡± ¡ª eWeek , April 2006 issue ¡° Plone is easily one of the most flexible and extensible of any Web platform available today, and has been used for everything from enterprise portal systems to project management to Web 2.0 deployments.¡± ¡ª Emerging Technologies , January 16, 2008 7 November 2008
4. Open Source CMS GPL License (Same license Linux uses) 7 November 2008
5. Owned and Protected By the Plone Foundation (similar to the Apache Foundation) 7 November 2008
6. Standards Compliant 100% XHTML and CSS Standards Compliant Works on all Major Browsers and Supports Open ID 7 November 2008
14. By Fabrizio Reale and Andy McKay Published by Apress? The Definitive Guide to Plone Second Edition 7 November 2008 Publishing April 2009 New Book Just Announced!
15. Who Uses Plone? ? 1390 Sites Around the World, 282 Providers in 57 Countries, Over 70 Public Organizations 7 November 2008
16. Some Organizations Using Plone? 7 November 2008 BMC Software Oxfam Discover Nokia Novell NASA Akamai DENSO Automotive Engage Media Ville de Meudon France Asia Pacific Forum Brazilian Government
18. How Can Plone? Help You? Give your company a website that will grow with it. Collaborate easily and securely with co-workers. Give clients the option to serve themselves. Securely edit and manage document workflows the way you want. Save time, effort and money. 7 November 2008
19. What You Can Do With Plone? Websites, Extranets, Intranets e-Commerce Project Management Workflow Management Blogs, Podcasting, Videocasting Social Networking Collaborative Workspaces 7 November 2008