Plone is a free and open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. It is suited for an internal website or may be used as a server on the Internet, playing such roles as a document publishing system and groupware collaboration tool.
Plone is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and is designed to be extensible.
Plone is built on the Zope application server, which is written in Python. Plone is made such that all information stored in Plone is stored in Zope's built-in transactional object database (ZODB). Plone comes with installers for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, along with other operating systems.
Criticism and review of Plone CMS
Plone's weaknesses include Python and Zope experience requirements for those wishing to add or extend the feature set, making for a considerable learning curve for developers. Plone has been rated as lagging in repository services when compared to other major CMSs.
Freestyler is an easy-to-use content management system with a range of applications to suit websites, intranets and extranets of any size. More flexible than Joomla, Freestyler is an Australian CMS written in PHP and can be hosted on either Windows or Linux. Ease of use for content editors is the key aim of this CMS with automatic image resizing function and rich text editing with the ability to easily add new pages anywhere within the site without having to create or manage the links to them. For webmasters, Freestyler comes with an easy installation script, access to an online and a range of built-in templates including pages, downloads and online forms.
Freestyler CMS web page.
Freestyler is an easy-to-use content management system with a range of applications to suit websites, intranets and extranets of any size. More flexible than Joomla, Freestyler is an Australian CMS written in PHP and can be hosted on either Windows or Linux. Ease of use for content editors is the key aim of this CMS with automatic image resizing function and rich text editing with the ability to easily add new pages anywhere within the site without having to create or manage the links to them. For webmasters, Freestyler comes with an easy installation script, access to an online and a range of built-in templates including pages, downloads and online forms.
Freestyler CMS web page.