Upgraded Supporting Architecture

Plone 2 includes the latest versions of its supporting architecture, making development much easier for the developers. The benefits include:

• Easier deployment
• Easier clustering and load-balancing
• Distributed deployment options for constant site up-time
• Easier live debugging and setup of mirrored development instances

The latest versions of the following components are included:

• Zope 2.7
• Python 2.3
• CMF 1.4

Support for files bigger than 2GB on Windows

With Python 2.3 comes support for Data.fs files bigger than 2GB on the Windows platform without having to split the files. This ensures that bigger deployments on a Windows-based platform can use the same setup as the Linux- or Mac OS X-based ones.

Archetypes included

Plone 2 ships with Archetypes, the schema-based framework for building your own content types quickly and easily, while still being able to access the power of the agile programming language Python. Archetypes is considered to be one of Plone's major strengths by many programmers, and we encourage you to try it out if you want to have customized and specialized content types. Of special note is the bindings to Office and OpenOffice document formats, and transformation to and from these. Ever wanted to edit your content from a word processor, and have it show up as a valid HTML page inside your content management system when you click the Save button?

More Speed

For those of you who desire better performance, Plone 2 is compatible with SpeedPack, an add-on product that will speed up your site as much as 100% in debug mode. Essential for developers, and gives your site a nice boost in non-debug mode too. If you're feeling brave, you can turn on the experimental Psyco support included in the package. SpeedPack makes a world of difference on slower (~500MHz) computers, and comes highly recommended for developers.

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