Plone is a user friendly implementation of the Content Management
Framework written on top of ZOPE.  Plone is a
GUI/Interface/Implementation of the CMF.  It benefits from all features
of ZOPE/CMF such as: RDBMS integration, Python/Perl extensions, Object
Oriented Database, Web configurable workflow, pluggable membership and
authentication, Undos, Form validation, amongst many many other
features.  Available protocols: FTP, XMLRPC, HTTP, WEBDAV and you can
hack it to enable SOAP.  Turn it into a distributed application system
by installing ZEO.

Plone attempts to compete with Livelink, Interwoven and Documentum.  It
aims to be *the* opensource out-of-the-box publishing system.

WWW:	http://plone.org/