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Thanks Michael :) - Lars Juhl Jensen

We were using Zope and now switched to cherrypy + cheetah: technically zope is python but depending on what you want to do you might find yourself trapped quite rapidly - Yann Abraham

This functionality is what blog3 will have - besides the science 2.0 functionality - if we get funded: http://docs.google.com/Doc... - Björn Brembs

Drupal? - Duncan Hull

it's only a personal opinion, but Plone is a hideous abomination best left alone (this is a quasi-religious prejudice, much like my one against emacs)... Drupal or Joomla will almost certainly do everything you want, with appropriate plugins (Drupal has a very extensive community behind it) - Simon Cockell

I had a long pretty bad experience with the Zope 2.x framework. Too much boilerplate code, too much under-the-hood tinkering. As a result, Plone is extremely cumbersome to maintain. Less experience with Drupal, but a far better one. If you are doing content management only, definitely look at Drupal. I heard good things about Django for deploying web-based applications. - Iddo Friedberg

Your requirements are exactly what current CMS do. I agree with Simon, dont go with plone. Drupal - http://drupal.org/ or MODx http://modxcms.com/ - Frank

I can vouch against anything like Plone/Zope. Go with Drupal or Joomla. - Paulo Nuin

A US government favorite for such purposes is SharePoint </ducks> - Brian Haugen

Sharepoint is horrendous. I have to use it every day. Don't ever mention that word again :) - Frank from iPhone

Sharepoint is the worse software from MSFT I ever used. It's worse than Me, Vista, Outlook, and any other crap they produce. Unfortunately the company I work for uses it. - Paulo Nuin

Plone is horrific. Drupal is good. I used to like Joomla a lot - but watch out for 3rd party extensions, they often have terrible security issues. A lot of wikis have CMS-worthy features too. I like DokuWiki, but TikiWiki is very full-featured - http://info.tikiwiki.org/tiki-in.... Compare and contrast at CMS Matrix (http://cmsmatrix.org/) or WikiMatrix (http://www.wikimatrix.org/). - Neil Saunders

Thanks everyone! - Lars Juhl Jensen

I agree with the majority that Drupal is very good, but it would be even better if it used a scripting language for customization rather than a web-based GUI. There are way, way, way too many checkboxes that you have to remember to tick and, as a result, you have to be something of a Drupal expert to get the customization right. It is a bit like one of those attempts to write a GUI for a command line program where the programmer just puts a checkbox for every single command line option. - Matt Leifer

Well, I for one definitely recommend that you *do* evaluate Plone. Your security requirements are exactly the sort of use-case that the Zope platform was designed to handle. We've had a role-based security model as a core component for about a decade now. If you want to see who else is using Plone, check this out: http://plone.net/sites - Michael R. Bernstein

Also, this report comparing different CMSs might be useful: http://www.idealware.org/compari... - Michael R. Bernstein

Drupal - Charles Tanton

Hi Lars. If you have money to spend, it seems like these guys have made nice CMS stuff for the University of Copenhagen before: http://www.magenta-aps.dk (mostly Plone and some custom CMS) - Anders Norgaard

Konrad Förstner did something with Plone (I think for the Online Symposium we had at EMBL some time ago) -- you could also ask him for his experience - Michael Kuhn

Right, I used Plone for the Online EMBL PhD symposium (a static version can be found here http://phdsymposium.embl.org/onlines...). This is already some years ago (so before Plone 3) and there were quite some improvements/changes since that. For us it worked out quite fine - the only issues IMO is that its resource demanding and it was a little bit slow on our old OpenBSD server... more... - Konrad Förstner

I'd use Drupal for this, http://drupal.org. It has a vibrant community of contributors, many of them professionals associated with high profile companies. Drupal is GPL with the exception of a few themes and of course custom modules. Access control/permissions are as fine grained as you want them to be, you can set up workflows and content types to accommodate what you state, and then... more... - Christoph Weber

+1 for Plone. It has great users/groups functionality and it's very easy to use. - Nate Aune