So I am not the only person who had bad experiences with Plone? Good to know it was not my own dumbness alone that led me to the conclusion Zope would be a good idea if the Zope people stopped having revolutionary ideas and sat down to document and clean up what they already have...:)
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Friday July 16, 2004 @07:43PM (#9722852)
We just lost half a year trying to build a scalable Intranet site with Plone and Zope, for an organisation which really needs that scalability. Never again.
We even had some of Europe's best Plone/Zope experts on the project, and they came to the conclusion that it's not really possible (outside some very narrow fields where you can just use Squid or other similar caching to create scalability from where there is none) to create scalable web applications using those tools.
One of the largest problems was the fact that there are only two Oracle adapters for Python, of which neither is really production-ready, compared to JDBC connectivity or the Perl Oracle modules, or any of the C OCI redirect APIs I've seen.
Summa summarum: we came to the conclusion that the only people who should invest in Zope products and knowledge are those who expect to profit from directly selling that knowledge - as a serious tool Zope/Plone certainly doesn't have anything over Java or even PHP and.NET.
Unfortunately, those UI screens people generally demonstrate make it a dangeously seductive waste of time.
Link to project (Score:5, Informative)
http://maven.apache.org/ [apache.org]
Re:Link to project (Score:-1, Troll)
And believe me, Maven is crap of Plone-esque proportions. Check Hani's blog.
Plone-esque proportions (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Plone-esque proportions (Score:1, Informative)
We even had some of Europe's best Plone/Zope experts on the project, and they came to the conclusion that it's not really possible (outside some very narrow fields where you can just use Squid or other similar caching to create scalability from where there is none) to create scalable web applications using those tools.
One of the largest problems was the fact that there are only two Oracle adapters for Python, of which neither is really production-ready, compared to JDBC connectivity or the Perl Oracle modules, or any of the C OCI redirect APIs I've seen.
Summa summarum: we came to the conclusion that the only people who should invest in Zope products and knowledge are those who expect to profit from directly selling that knowledge - as a serious tool Zope/Plone certainly doesn't have anything over Java or even PHP and
Unfortunately, those UI screens people generally demonstrate make it a dangeously seductive waste of time.