Plone is often compared to commercial systems such as Sharepoint and Alfresco. In the open source CMS space, Plone is often compared to Drupal and Joomla. This wiki page is intended to collect facts about these other systems and make a case for why one would want to use Plone over these other systems, and when one of these other systems might be a better fit.

• Plone vs. Sharepoint
• Plone vs. Alfresco
• Plone vs. Drupal
• Plone vs. Joomla
• Plone vs. Typo3
• Plone vs. Nuxeo

Those not very familiar with web technologies, often make the mistake of trying to compare Plone to Ruby on Rails, Django, PHP or even Dreamweaver. This is like comparing apples to oranges. While it's true that all of these technologies can be used to create a website, they are not a CMS, so it's not a fair comparison.