So here it is. The time has come for my path and Plone’s to diverge. I’m sure we’ll meet again sometime in the future as she has too much potential to shun completely. She showed up at my door adorned with diamonds, so who wouldn’t let her in. She held so much promise. There were times when I fantasized about handing Plone all of my responsibilities, but these dreams were dashed time and time again by tantrums, fights, and utter refusal to do the work at hand. Now that I have handed her her bag and coat, show shows glimmers, once again, of the grace and beauty that convinced me to let her in in the first place. I would reconsider the eviction notice except for the fact that she uses far too many resources and works far too slowly for an operation of my size.

To Plone:
Thank you for making it so easy for me to extract all of your data from you. You are being a little sticky with your passwords, but who wouldn’t be. (No worries… I have sent in a request to the powers that be to tell me how to extract those too… so watch out .. I will get them.

You may be wondering how I will be replacing someone with such a broad range of duties like yourself. I haven’t decided completely. You were primarily used for posting tutorials, news, and hosting a forum, so I will likely just replace you with PHPBB and some homegrown PHP CMS (or Drupal). In any case, whatever I use to replace you will use 50 times less memory and run 50 times faster. That’s really all it comes down to. I didn’t like using you, so how can I expect the other community members to like using you. One day I’ll check on you again to see if your performance has improved at all… but until then, I won’t be using you anymore if I can help it.

P.S.: I am still using you for some sites, but won’t be setting up any new sites with you for quite some time.