[ale] Anyone here use Zope?

[John Wells]

This is what I'm looking for:

Ability to interface with RDBMS.
Speed. speed. speed.
It'd be nice to separate bus logic from presentation
logic, but not absolutely necessary.
Capable of being distributed across multiple servers.

Thanks,
John

--- Ron Cordell <roncordell at attbi.com> wrote:
> 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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