re [typo3] typo3 vs plone. what are strenghts and weaknesses

J.M. Foster admin at osd.net
Sat Mar 26 21:07:31 CET 2005


Hello-

I don't know whether this will help you with your research.
You can find comprehensive comparisons of CMS
platforms, including Plone and TYPO3. Ratings in various
categories are supplied and side by side comparisons
possible. Good Luck !  http://www.cmsmatrix.org/

Cheers -
Julie Foster

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At 11:52 AM 03/26/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>Michael Scharkow wrote:
>
> > robert wrote:
> >
> >> - In our daily work we are often confronted with Typo 3  are asked to 
> explain the differences.
> >>
> >> I would therefore love to hear from people that have experience 
> working with both of them. What is the strength of either of the two.
> >
> >
> > Unfortunately, I know exactly no person who has comparable knowledge of 
> both Plone and TYPO3. This is probably because both systems are so 
> complex that nobody ever bothers to get into both of them, unless this 
> person has like a year or two off and scientific interest ;).
> > I have looked into plone recently, but it looks nothing like TYPO3. I 
> don't understand how Plone and ZOPE are related, and Plone uses (in 
> TYPO3-speak) front-end editing only, or rather it does not even have a 
> backend, does it?
> >
> > Sorry, I am really interested in this, but cannot add useful information.
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Michael
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>Michael,
>you are perfectly right, no developer (I found until today) had the time 
>to get into both systems.
>However potential customers want to know. They ask and we should be able 
>point out in what
>environment each of the systems work best. This has nothing to do with 
>which system is better.
>Such a question can, by default, never be answered seriously.
>
>Thats why I started to collect data. I do not yet exactly know what I am 
>looking for.  I have no
>chart or questionnaire (yet).
>I will compile my finding into a report. Since I am (as stated before) a 
>Zope/Plone gui with rather
>intim knowledge of that part of the CMS world i am of course biased. Not 
>because I want to prove
>something but because I know iZope/Plone and understand the mechanics 
>behind it.
>
>To answer your question:
>I know nothing about Typo3 so far (I bought a book on it this afternoon) 
>so I do not know anything
>about back- and front end.
>
>Zope/Plone is a layered system. It consists of two main parts that consist 
>themslf of several layers:
>
>Zope:
>    Zope is an applicationserver. It presents itself like an extension of 
> your desktop. Visually it is
>    similar to an Windows explorer window on your desktop. You just put 
> things (like files, folders,
>    Plone sites, programs)    on top of it. Each thing is an object an can 
> in itself consist of
>    many subobject. You always deal with objects. This is probably a very 
> fundamental difference to Typo3.
>    Zope is written in python (some time critical parts in c). It is 
> installed as a monolithic bloc.
>    It provides you with a number of servers HTTP, FTP, WebDAV, RpcXML. 
> You can use Zope therefore
>    without any other server like Apache or IE. However, it is normally 
> run behind Apache or other such.
>
>    Zope itself consists of several layers of which I will name only two:
>
>    ZODB
>        ZODB is a OO Database it creates and maintains objects. As said 
> before, an object can be
>        something very little link a string, or something very big like a 
> multi gigabyte website
>        with al its content.
>
>    A "physical" Database
>        ZODB does not store data, it is only handles objects. It delegates 
> the job to make objects
>        peristente to on of a number of different databases. The most 
> commonly used is a flat file
>        called Data.fs. The nice thing with this approach is, that you 
> only have to backup/restore
>        one single file.
>
>    Any number of so called Products. This are Python modules that enhance 
> Zope's basic functionality.
>
>Plone:
>    Plone is such a Product (actually a bunch of Products). It runs on top 
> of Zope and provides
>    a CMS class. To create a new Plone site, you just add a "Plone"-Object.
>
>    Plone itself is layered. It consist mainly out of the following two parts:
>
>    CMF (Content management Framework):
>        This provides all Contenttypes and methods (like Workflow) needed 
> in a CMS. It is totaly
>        independent of Plone.
>
>    Plone itself:
>        This is (theoretically) a gui that provides a user interface to 
> the CMF. In fact, this separation
>        is not that strict.
>
>Robert
>
>
>
>
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