Plone Foundation Releases Plone 2.1; The Fastest Growing Open Source Content Management System Releases New Version.HOUSTON -- The Plone Foundation recently released the 2.1 version of Plone, the leading Content Management System for the award-winning Zope application server. Supported by thousands of developers from around the world, it is one of the most sophisticated, popular, and easy-to-use content management systems available today. Plone provides a scalable, extensible and stable application that uses open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced throughout. It runs on all major operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. including Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Plone is available in more than 50 languages and is used by JETRO JETRO Japan External Trade Organization , Vera Wang Vera Wang (Chinese: 王薇薇; Pinyin: Wáng Wēiwei; born June 27, 1949) is an American fashion designer based in New York. , Mark of the Unicorn, Connexions, National Cancer Institute, BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. NYSE: BMC, is an American enterprise management software provider, focusing on IT infrastructure applications. BMC was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. , Burning Man Project, and numerous other commercial and non-profit entities. eWeek.com recognized Plone 2.0 as one of the Top 10 enterprise applications of 2004: "...the free, open-source Plone has taken what was already probably the best option in Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. portals and made it the clear leader in this field." "Plone is growing and growing up," says Dr. Geoff Davis Geoffrey "Geoff" Davis (born October 26 1958) is an American politician from the state of Kentucky, who was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from Kentucky's At-large congressional district with 54% of the vote on November 2 2004. , of the Plone Foundation. "This version, delivers a product that offers innovative features for searching and organizing content." Recent notable deployments include Oxfam America, the European Aeronautic aer·o·nau·tic also aer·o·nau·ti·cal adj. Of or relating to aeronautics. aer  o·nau Defense and Space Company, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, Motorola, the Brazilian Parliament, the National Cancer Institute, eBay and Wolfords. Peter White of Surrey NHS NHSabbr. National Health Service NHS (in Britain) National Health Service Health Informatics Service said, "Our choice wasn't only based on cost. From a rigorous analysis of seven major systems, we found that the Plone system came out on top in terms of performance and features." Extensive testing have shown Plone's interface to be flexible and intuitive. Notable features include time-based content deployment and role-based authoring & publishing. Plone 2.1's new set of features provide users with tools to greatly enhance their productivity while maintaining an optimal user experience. The new version also gives content managers and end users sophisticated, yet simple, ways to more effectively search and organize their content. "LiveSearch" provides an instant preview of search results when typing, while "Smart Folders" allow content managers to arrange content according to usage. Plone 2.1 continues to build on a proven legacy of an easy-to-use interface with rich out-of-the-box functionality. Available add-on products allow Windows desktop integration, seamless handling of multilingual content, rapid deployment into existing IT infrastructure, and a host of other features from blogs to enterprise authentication. An ever growing number of entities offer Plone products, training, support, hosting, and consulting services. These entities provide a level of security and professionalism that allow Plone to fit the needs of any type of organization. Part of a vibrant community, users and developers participate in conferences and workshops in locations around the world. Download and learn more about Plone at http://plone.org/. Plone is a registered trademark of the Plone Foundation in the US and other countries. All other trademarks are owned by their respective owners. |
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