Socratic Monologue
Via Slashdot, I see that The Definitive Guide to Plone is available online. Plone is a really solid, open source content management system, built on top of the Zope content management framework (and as an added bonus, its written in Python!). I’ve noticed a few educational technology blogs, notably that of David Wiley, are run using Plone.
The biggest drawback, from my point of view, is that you basically need to run your own server in order to install Plone, as opposed to some of the PHP/Perl + MySQL content management systems, such as Drupal. These can be installed onto any server that runs PHP or Perl scripts. There are some hosts that provide Plone hosting, but at a premium that makes it less attractive.
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Take a look at Zettai’s pricing for Plone sites. They provide excellent hosting services at very very reasonable prices. I’m not affiliated with Zettai, but two of my clients have chosen them for Plone hosting and I was very impressed with their offering and service.
I agree Plone’s dependence on an app-server process makes it harder to find a place to deploy it, but it’s also that app-server that makes it so darn good.