Optaros has just released a White Paper which is titled "Unleashing the Power of Open Source in Document Management" which describes why Open Source Solutions have good chances to compete against the established and expensive Document Management Solutions.

The Study has taken a closer look at the following Open Source Solutions:

• Alfresco
• Contineo
• Nuxeo CPS
• KnowledgeTree
• Owl
• Plone
• Open sTeam

Great, there are two Solutions which are based on Zope, namely Nuxeo CPS and Plone here :)

Optaron concludes, that each of the solutions have unique features, strengths and Weaknesses and have made up a nice chart which describes three factors which are "Application Capabilities", Enterprise Readiness" and "Community". Plone has by far the largest Community in this Comparizon, but is topped by Alfresco, when it comes to the other two.

The main reasons for this is - as I understand the Paper - it's missing versioning Support. As of Today, there still is no included or official Solution for Versioning. CMFEditions will probably be this solution in the future, but there still is no 1.0 Release, yet. Plone's lack of a decent Versioning System has been known for quite a while now. But it does not seem that important to many people. Which is something I personally do not understand.

I think a decent Versioning Solution would give Plone another serious boost when it comes to Intranet Solutions. Maybe I should take a closer look at CMFEditions again - an actual Software Bundle / Release would make this a lot easiert. *wink*