1 Plone is a user friendly implementation of the Content Management Framework
2 written on top of ZOPE. Plone is a GUI/Interface/Implementation of the
3 CMF. It benefits from all features of ZOPE/CMF such as: RDBMS integration,
4 Python/Perl extensions, Object Oriented Database, Web configurable workflow,
5 pluggable membership and authentication, Undos, Form validation, amongst
6 many many other features. Available protocols: FTP, XMLRPC, HTTP, WEBDAV
7 and you can hack it to enable SOAP. Turn it into a distributed application
8 system by installing ZEO.
10 Plone attempts to compete with Livelink, Interwoven and Documentum. It
11 aims to be *the* opensource out-of-the-box publishing system.