[geeks] Zope/Plone?

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 @ 11:58 -0500, Bryan Fullerton said:

> On 12/1/06, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> > NOTE: I'm not saying it will eat 19GB of virtual memory, as it has been
> > redesigned, made into a generic platform, etc, but it is still a bloated
> > system.
> 
> Are there any commercially supported CMS systems that are not bloated?

I don't know... but Digital Creations' software went far beyond bloat.
If their Python code's bloat was a volume of space, it would have to be
measured in parsecs.

> A couple of years ago at a previous job we were looking at a CMS for a
> large news site and Zope was one of the finalists in the RFP process.
> They didn't eventually win the business, but I was under the
> impression that their system requirements were similar or smaller than
> the others.

I would like to think they improved from where they were years ago,
because the software they wrote for InfiNet had a trivial function, and
brought a 64-bit Alpha to its knees.


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