Ok – As I wrote in Typo3 vs. EZ Publish I am looking for a great new content management system to deploy…

I used the EZ Publish demo site and found that it's even a bit slow on the demo site – and it's hosted in Europe…

Meanwhile I found Plone that is implemented on top of the famous ZOPE application server … promising to implement all the features I described in my previous post… but – everything's done in Python.. hey – a chance or need to learn a 3third web-script language apart from Perl and PHP ?

Plone uses TAL (a generic template language, already available in Perl and Python ports – so heading for standard…) – a good thing.

The Database Plone stores its content is an object oriented db called ZODB. But you can also pull out content from several RDBMS systems like MySQL,PostgreSQL,Firebird,Oracle,DB2 and MS SQL Server.

Plone test sites can be setup at Objectis for free and they have a full set of great extensions to add on for your subdomain site (it's being created as yourname.objectis.net)

• EPOZ : a fantastic JavaScript WYSIWIG editor that implement a rich html GUI for editing that requires NO PLUGIN for browsers and has a really RICH WYSIWIG GUI for even editing tables, pictures, resizing everything just as in your word-processor… impressive stuff
• I18N : nice plugin to implement optional multi-lingual content
• more to come…

I'll keep you posted…