Plone¶

Overview¶

Plone is the leading enterprise open source content management system.

Plone is among the top 2% of all open source projects worldwide, with hundreds of core developers and more the 300 solution providers in 57 countries. The project has been actively developed since 2001 and has the best security track record of any major CMS.

We’ve been Enterprise Linux packaging and supporting Plone and it’s vast ecosystem of addons for over a decade. We have integrated and support over 500 community extensions and addons. These are all very well described and documented at our Zope and Plone Software Channel. This is a very significant consideration because there is a propensity for ossification of what we think quite important corporate functionality over time simply by the nature of open source development and funding. We underwrite the continued operability of all these packages as Plone changes and improves over time.

Our Zope and Plone channel is binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and indeed is a Plone-based 100% API-compatible variant of their Satellite infrastructure. We have worked hard to ensure this (i) so that you can still enjoy Red Hat support for your operating system layer if you’ve already paid for it; (ii) you can use all the standard Red Hat software update tools to get BastionLinux/Plone.

We have a range of internal programme’s of work that are heavily reliant upon Zope and Plone. Not only does this give us unparalleled expertise when it comes to Enterprise Content Management deployments and bespoke feature requests, but you can be assured that we are very much invested in the platform, releases, and patches into the future. We also have a range of proprietary Enterprise Plone solutions including IMAP/Email client, General Ledger, Meetings, Call Centre/Ticketing solutions which we can offer to you. We have a transparent project and programme management system which we can also make available to manage and monitor all interactions with us in the effective deployment of your Plone solution.

We have considerable expertise in non-Plone technologies and data-centre infrastructure. We have solutions in configuration management, network monitoring and management, ISP-strength email/messaging, directory services/federation/SSO, and much more. Our skills can reach across the breadth of your technology assets to ensure your Plone extracts maximal value for your entire organisation.

Highlights¶

Enterprise-scale content management
Large global community and ecosystem

Quickstart¶

Start an instance with 1-Click, or optionally using your cloud provider’s web/console
Have just a little patience: it does take a couple of minutes for all the background services to start up in your instance. If you get connection refused or site error messages - just wait a moment
Access the product via web browser at https://<your IP/public DNS>
Login with user-name admin, and the instance id as password.
We recommend you change the admin password for the software. To do this, you need to go to site preferences, select users and reset the admin user’s password. Do make sure you’ve set your email address for the root user.