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Sprint Easy to Get Started Batteries Included Supports Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris. Speaks Your Language Available in over 35 languages, Plone was designed from the ground up for multilingual content management. It handles Chinese, Japanese, and even right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew with ease. Nicest Kid on the Block The Plone Team includes leading usability experts who have made Plone easy and productive to work with.
eWeek, April 2006 issue User Friendly Gets Out of Your Way and Lets You Write Plone includes a powerful, rich editor with text formatting, image and link insertion abilities. If you're used to working with an office suite, you'll feel right at home. Instant, Full-text Searching All content is searchable immediately; Built-in Image Resizing Upload an image, and it's automatically rescaled to a variety of sizes, ready to be used in your content. It can seamlessly blend with your existing look, or allow you to create a bold new style that's all your own. Powerful Powerful Workflow Engine Make your business processes part of the document workflow -- complemented by fool-proof security management. Speed and Scalability Comes out-of-the-box with clustering capability and intelligent caching proxy integration. Security and Flexibility Fine-grained role-based security model secures your content. Plone's sandbox architecture ensures that even if your system should be compromised, intruders will not have access to your server or your network. Syndicate and Aggregate Smart folders and smart updates. Plone automatically produces RSS feeds from folders, search results and more -- the ideal way of staying on top of the information explosion and customize information delivery. Standards Compliant Accessibility Compliant Meets or exceeds US Government Section 508 and W3C's WAI-AA standards for sight and motor impaired individuals. All Javascript usage comes with fallback modes that work in any web browser. Outstanding Search Engine Visibility 100% valid XHTML and CSS keeps search engines and web browsers happy. Plone sites are consistently ranked well in Google search results. Plays Well with Others LDAP, SQL, SOAP, Web Services (WSDL) and WebDAV -- Plone works with them all. Pluggable Authentication Easy integration with LDAP, Active Directory and SQL databases. Supported World-class Support Whether you use the online documentation, mailing lists and chat rooms -- or the services of the hundreds of companies around the world that support Plone -- you're never alone. Open Source, Open Standards Plone is available under the same open source license as Linux, and uses the open source Python programming language and Zope application server. This avoids vendor lock-in, expensive licenses, and gives you a predictable future -- and the freedom to innovate. Great Documentation, in Print and Online Currently, there are five published books about Plone, which have been translated into German, Japanese and several other languages. Innovative and Extensible Hundreds of add-on products are available -- forums, issue trackers, blogs and collaboration tools.
Plone is Your Secret Weapon Whether used for a company intranet or for a community web site, Plone delivers. Some of the functionality described requires additional (but free) add-on products to be installed.
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