Plone 4 CMS Unveiled: Advancing Power, Performance & User Experience
SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 — The Plone community has raised the bar in the Content Management
System market with today's release of Plone 4, a faster, more user-friendly and
more refined version of a product which has set the pace for CMS innovation for
nearly a decade. Plone 4 delivers big improvements in raw speed, scalability
and ease of use, and continues to advance its hallmark strengths of unmatched security,
superior user interface, ease of installation and a beautiful out-of-the-box experience.
"Plone 4 is based on the most-frequently requested features and improvements from
Plone's worldwide user and developer community," says Plone co-founder and Firefox
User Experience Lead Alexander Limi. “Our developers and users asked for better
performance — Plone 4 is much faster, requires less memory, and performs well even
when serving up massive files. They also didn't want us to sacrifice what we do
well to get there — and we haven't. Plone 4 is not just more powerful — it continues
to improve in areas Plone has always been known for: usability, security, and a
CMS that is easy to install, upgrade, and looks great right out of the box.”
Looking back on the nine year evolution of Plone and the community that supports
it, Limi is more than pleased. “It's gotten to be a lot bigger than I thought it
could be. Sometimes we forget how many people are involved with Plone, and how many
people have left behind PHP and Java to create successful businesses based around
Plone.”
Geir Bækholt, President of the Plone Foundation, has a similar reaction. "I'm impressed
with how professional, mature and focused the Plone community is. It's rare in open
source to see so many companies operating to such high standards, treating their
customers and employees well and running their businesses in a sustainable manner.
The best thing about Plone is that we have so many mature, stable companies using
it who are consummate professionals at what they do."
For all its technical and visual improvements, one of Plone 4's most important roles
is to build the under-the-hood foundation even more exciting improvements in Plone
5. It gives developers and users innovations they can use today, while allowing
them to develop products and websites that will be ready to take full advantage
of future Plone releases.
The list of notable changes in Plone 4 includes:
You can find out more about these new features than you would ever want to by visiting http://plone.org/4.
Plone 4 is available today at plone.org as a free, open source download, with installers for most major operating systems — including Windows, Mac, Linux and many flavors of UNIX.
About Plone
Plone is among the top 2% of all open source projects worldwide, with 340 core developers and more than 300 solution providers in 57 countries. The project has been actively developed since 2001, is available in more than 40 languages, and has the best security track record of any major content management system.
It is owned by the Plone Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
For more information, visit http://plone.org