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Is there money in this Plone thing?
Looking at Google, seems that Plone is quite popular.
Just doing a search on google for term, plone I get:
while looking at that i seemed to have run across a bug in google? secondary sponsored links has a Next arrow that repeats things.. up to 1000
http://www.google.com/sponsoredlinks?q=plone&start=990&sa=N
anyway.. there seems that quite a few large organizations using Plone:
of course the flexibility comes with the power of the Zope Application Server and the Python programming language. Which brings up the new python.org website redesign. I believe the redesign uses moinmoin for the 'back-end' and django for the 'front-end'. Not quite sure but I *think* thats the implementation. Similiar to how we used Plone for the 'back-end' and Zope 3 for the 'front-end' at Sargent Shriver for Poverty Law. This is done by using the open source Entransit content deployment system.
I would love to hear about people talking more about Plone success. You would be surprised to hear how little people talk about success or failure with Plone.
please.. share the love -- post info to plone-users or blog about it and tag it with plone-success-story
The only thing that should be tagged is something that describes the Plone success. I guess we could also have a plone-failure-story tag that describes failures.
- 8 ad links, with More Sponsored Links # Why would anyone pay for a second page link?
- On the second More Sponsored Links is a Plone hosting provider and apple.com pimping Plone as "... and other research applications for Mac OS X."
- 5 of the ads are consulting / services firms
- 2 are hosting companies (the most popular hosting companies arent showing up)
- 1 is a commercial CMS that is trying to get serious people to buy their CMS as a alternative to Plone
while looking at that i seemed to have run across a bug in google? secondary sponsored links has a Next arrow that repeats things.. up to 1000
http://www.google.com/sponsoredlinks?q=plone&start=990&sa=N
anyway.. there seems that quite a few large organizations using Plone:
- FSF, Free Software Foundaiton - http://www.fsf.org/
- CC, Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org/
- OSDL, Open Source Development Labs - http://www.osdl.org/
- CNX, Connexions Project - http://cnx.org/
of course the flexibility comes with the power of the Zope Application Server and the Python programming language. Which brings up the new python.org website redesign. I believe the redesign uses moinmoin for the 'back-end' and django for the 'front-end'. Not quite sure but I *think* thats the implementation. Similiar to how we used Plone for the 'back-end' and Zope 3 for the 'front-end' at Sargent Shriver for Poverty Law. This is done by using the open source Entransit content deployment system.
I would love to hear about people talking more about Plone success. You would be surprised to hear how little people talk about success or failure with Plone.
please.. share the love -- post info to plone-users or blog about it and tag it with plone-success-story
The only thing that should be tagged is something that describes the Plone success. I guess we could also have a plone-failure-story tag that describes failures.
eGovernment delivered as Software as a Service
My organization is getting ready to release an eGovernment application based on Plone shortly (early 2007). It will have a GPL license, freely available to anyone, but particularly useful to Government of Local or State variety, US or elsewhere. With 20,000 + cities and counties in US alone, that should be a reasonably good market.
Somebody could offer an inexpensive turnkey eGovernment solution to governments delivered by SaaS (Software as a Service). Nothing to install locally, no need to acquire complex Plone/Zope skills on site, low risk. Order services off a menu including customization, implementation and support. Set-up a sand-box environment with demo user ids. Let the customer use Kupu and tailor the look and feel, test drive before commit with least amount of effort.
Set up multiple instances and leverage administrative tasks. Deliver customizations at a fee. A new ecosystem could be created which works for the Plone provider and for Government. You make a living and we get value at reasonable cost. Enhancements are shared, when one invests, everyone benefits.
What are the chances that the Open Source community will leverage this opportunity? While the value proposition depends on the quality of shared eGov code (unknown at this time but hopefully decent), in principle I was wondering if this business model makes sense to anyone.
The Newport News eGov project will be presented at the Seattle 2006 Plone Conference.
Andy Stein Director IT City of Newport News astein@nngov.com (757) 926-3776