[ale] Anyone here use Zope?

[Ron Cordell]

On Thursday 14 March 2002 12:38 pm, John Wells wrote:
> Michael,
>
> Thanks for the detailed input on this matter.  I've
> been following along because I've heard so many good
> things about Zope recently...
>
> If Zope isn't quite there yet for large scale web
> apps, what is?  I'm getting ready to begin work on a
> project that I would consider large scale, and I'm
> charged with identifying the tools we'll use.  I've
> been examining both PHP and JBoss/Tomcat solutions.
> What else is out there?  What would you recommend?
>

Sorry to just jump in here... but here I go anyway ;-)

It's an interesting question, and depends a great deal on what you mean by 
large scale web apps. That is to say, what kinds of databases will your 
project require? What other datasources will you need to access? Will data 
access require transaction support, or distributed transaction support? Do 
you need personalization, user tracking, metrics, reporting... the list goes 
on. Other aspects to consider are content management; how much of the content 
on the site is dynamic versus static, how will it be maintained, what does 
the development/qa/staging/producton cycle need to look like, etc. Not to be 
ignored, who is doing the development, what are their skills and experience? 
I would find it very difficult to answer your not so simple question unless I 
knew more about those items, and more :-)

-ronc

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