Re: to plone or not to plone

[Ossama Khayat <okhayat at yahoo dot com>]

--- Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org> wrote:
[...]
> If people are not 'comfortable' with Plone because they don't know what
> it is or _how_ it is, that's natural.

I installed and used Plone on my Windows and I can see it's a pretty powerful
solution.

> However, if we were to continue
> with PHP then I would be very much against adopting some ready made CMS
> and would rather continue to use our own code.

True.

[...]
> The only challenge Plone provides is that there aren't as many Python
> Zope hackers as there are PHP hackers.

So, it's Python Zope and not only Python ;-)

> Then again, most of the Zope
> hackers know their stuff whereas you have to weave through a thousand
> php hacker to find someone who knows what they are doing.

I'll not argue this. Partially agree.

[...]
> If this were a commercial entity, I would understand such reservations..
> but for an Open Source project.. really, this is a non-issue in my book.

Agree too.

> I think I'm done with this topic. I'll just sit back and listen/read ;)

OK. I'm biased about this whole topic then ;-)

- Ossama

Osax: back to OOo2.0 :P

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