Similar

• Both are full-featured free and open source web applications.
• Both are community-run projects
• Both have large & vibrant communities

Different

• Plone is GPL, Tiki is LGPL. The main difference between the GPL and the LGPL is that the latter can be linked to (in the case of a library, 'used by') a non-(L)GPLed program, which may be free software or proprietary software.
• Tiki can run on standard, inexpensive hosting while Plone needs more.
• Plone is witten in Python, while Tiki is in PHP.

CMS Match

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CMS Matrix

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Active contributors

Number of contributors who made changes to the project source code each month.

Alias

• Plone
• TikiWiki vs Plone
• Tiki vs Zope Not really comparable but Zone & Plone are closely associated