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The Memory Link is powered by the open source content management system Plone.

What is a Content Management System?

A Content Management System (CMS) allows users to create, manage and publish content to a website without requiring a high level of technical skill. As websites have grown larger and more complex, content management systems like Plone have grown in popularity, since they provide an efficient, easy way for people to create and edit content in a consistent, secure and controllable fashion.  CMSes also enable website visitors to interact with content and with each other by contributing comments, ratings, submitting forms and more.
Using a CMS is critical to the success and long term maintainability of almost any website or intranet. 

What is Plone?

Plone is a powerful and flexible, enterprise-quality content management system that is easy for developers to download and install, and easy for end-users to use. Plone lets non-technical people create and maintain website content using only a web browser. Plone offers a rich set of capabilities for public websites, private intranets and collaborative workspaces.
Plone is among the top 2% of all open source projects worldwide, with 200 core developers and over 300 solution providers in more than 50 countries.
Plone has been actively developed since 2001, is available in more than 40 languages, and has the best security track record of any major CMS.
Plone's codebase and intellectual property is owned by the Plone Foundation, which is a non-profit organization where donations are tax-deductible (at least in the US). 

Who is using Plone?

Thousands of organizations including large and small businesses, educational institutions, government agencies, nonprofits, science organizations, media outlets and publishers are using Plone to power their websites.
Organizations as diverse as NASA, Oxfam, Amnesty International, Nokia, eBay, Novell, the FBI, the State Universities of Pennsylvania and Utah, as well as many governments round the world such as the UK, Belgian, Brazilian, Australian and New Zealand governments have chosen Plone to power both public-facing and internal websites.

How scalable is Plone?

Plone is appropriate for very small websites and very large ones. Plone has powerful built-in caching features that can be configured to optimize site performance.  In addition, Plone site administrators often use web accelerators such as Squid and Varnish to boost site speed.
Thanks to its use of Zope, Plone has outstanding clustering capabilities, which allows a website to be split over multiple servers to handle high traffic. 

For more information, please visit the official Plone website.