Re: Plone or TurboGears for Intranet
They are very different tools, apples and oranges. Plone is built for content management needs and TurboGears is built for general application development purposes. Both can work behind Apache but are not based on Apache. They use their own servers. Plone gives you a lot out of the box, but building Plone products, for your custom needs, has a steep learning curve to it. TurboGears is fairly simple to use and a good dev will probably take a day or so to get the hang of it. On the other hand, it will take as much time to learn to use Plone as an admin, let alone develop with it. There are several case studies for Plone on the web. Just Google for them. TurboGears won't have any since it is not officially production software yet. Personally, I don't take software case studies seriously. They are often too contextual, context that does not get adequately communicated in the document all too often. I would choose Plone to manage documents in the Intranet but stick to TurboGears (or some other framework - there are several good ones) for app development. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Plone or TurboGears for Intranet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Just wondering which technology would best suit the development of custom intranets in general, things that may be industry specific would need to be included (say for an industrial design company the addition of internal memos and even extrememly business specific apps such as simple inventory control reporting). The other big issue is ease of templating as the only Plone examples I've seen have seemed to basically use the original template or a slightly customised version of it so I'm wondering whether it would be quicker to build it from the ground up with TurboGears. Any thoughts on the matter are greatly appreciated and any examples of EITHER used extensively in case studies or the like would be fantastic! Thanks in advance! For custom applications, you'd be better off looking at Plone's underlying Zope app server. As an alternative to TG, you may want to consider Django. Memos and non-database apps would probably be okay with just Plone. In fact, for memos, design notes, developer documentation, you'd be best off considering a collaborative editing solution such as Wiki (of which there are numerous variants in any programming language you want). Though some may suggest a single system to fit all needs, unless you require tight integration (e.g. memos reflect real-time inventory information), you'd probably do well deploying them as separate best of breed applications. You can customize the UI to make the differences less apparent. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Plone or TurboGears for Intranet
Hi all, Just wondering which technology would best suit the development of custom intranets in general, things that may be industry specific would need to be included (say for an industrial design company the addition of internal memos and even extrememly business specific apps such as simple inventory control reporting). The other big issue is ease of templating as the only Plone examples I've seen have seemed to basically use the original template or a slightly customised version of it so I'm wondering whether it would be quicker to build it from the ground up with TurboGears. Any thoughts on the matter are greatly appreciated and any examples of EITHER used extensively in case studies or the like would be fantastic! Thanks in advance! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Plone or TurboGears for Intranet
Forgot to mention the ease of deployment using Apache (well basically LAMP) would be a big bonus, just because I trust and am familiar with Apache. Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
