IT Meedia (www.itmeedia.ee, itmeedia@itmeedia.ee) has made available the 2.0 beta version of the Amphora light groupware system. Amphora light 2.0 is covered by GPL.
See http://www.amphora.ee/freeware/
Amphora light is a powerful groupware server for small and medium sized enterprises, based on Linux, Zope, python, Postgresql and Apache, to name the most important components.
The functionality of Amphora light is similar to, and in several respects exceeds MS Exchange and Lotus Notes, providing:
- Browser interface for Netscape, Mozilla, MS IE - Simple file (document) sharing capabilities - Calendars - Tasks - Contacts - Discussions - Simple databases - Web-based email - Integrating front page - An optional MS Windows client for synchronisation with MS Outlook - Hierarchical system or rights, management of rights
Version 2.0 introduces a number of improvements over the version 1.0 made available last year:
- Full source available, licenced under GPL. - Supported on RedHat 7.2 - Based on Zope 2.4.x and new versions of postgresql, etc. - Does not require a devoted server machine - Should be much easier to port and install than version 1.0 - Simple file (document) sharing capabilities added - Simple database creation and usage capabilities added - By default, mail is based on sendmail instead of qmail - Numerous improvements to functionality, scalability and stability
The web-mail client of Amphora light by Indrek Järve has been submitted earlier as a separate Zope module. Amphora light as a whole is not a Zope module: it uses a number of additional systems not present in Zope.
A devoted Bugzilla site has been made available for bug reports, see http://www.amphora.ee/freeware/amphoralightdevelopment.html
IT Meedia is also marketing a professional version of Amphora (see http://www.amphora.ee/eng/), which contains powerful additional components:
- Full-fledged document management - CRM (clients, contacts, sales, etc connected to the rest) - Message registration and delegation system - ASP mode
Contact:
itmeedia@itmeedia.ee www.itmeedia.ee
Plone Lite - the easy, teen-age New York version!
Do you really like PLONE, but can't quite approach it's statistical density? Well, then Plone Lite is for you!
If you have some old sites based on Zope 2.3.3 and CMF 1.1 or 1.1b, and you don't want to try to port the site to 2.5 and the real plone, or can't deal with all the broken code, then try this skin.
If you still like the speed and excellent integration of DTML, then this skin is for you.
If you're lazy and want to slap a new face on your tired old site (after all, wasn't that the point of skins??), then this skin is for you!
If you like to try unsupported open source hacks, this skin is for you :)
Background
I have a few sites based on zope 2.3.3 and CMF1.1 and 1.1b. I tried to port them over to Zope2.5/CMF1.2 but was faced with massive refactoring of my DTML. Finally I gave up - for now. That, plus the reports of ZPT being 4x as slow as DTML, and of ZPT+Plone being 10x as slow as DTML - why did I buy a faster computer?? So, I discovered the initial Plone skin on the plone.org site, and hacked it until it's basically a drop-in skin.
Available here: http://www.zope.org/Members/bowerymarc/plone_lite
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Marc Lindahl -
Tanel Tammet