Berleley Storage beta, Zope Book final, Zope 2.4 further ahead than you might think, You should use an ODB - or use SmartObjects so things behave like one, all in this Zope **Weekly** News (really). The opinions expressed in Zope Weekly News are solely the authors', and not the opinions of Digital Creations, The Zope Community at-large, or the Spanish Inquisition. If you or your company are doing something cool with zope, "submit it to Zope Weekly News", mail:zope-web@zope.org for possible inclusion. Upcoming Events Linux Expo Brasil In only 5 days, Paul Everitt will be participating in the Keynote Session at the "Linux Expo Brazil", http://www.linuxexpobrasil.com/EN/home/ , being held on the 9th and 10th of May. EuroZope Conference The EuroZope crew is organizing a two day Zope only conference in Berlin on the 12th and 13th of July. Those interested in participating should join the discussion on the "EuroZope mailinglist", http://www.comlounge.net/mailman/listinfo/eurozope Zope in the Press IBM developerWorks discusses "Zope from the perspective of a Perl/CGI programmer", http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-zope.html?n-l-4261 in a fairly complimentary way. Although it's not specifically about zope, there's a great article called "Why Aren't You Using an Object Oriented Database Management System", http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/5/3/32853/11281 which may be useful the next time someone brings up the "black box" of the ZODB. Speaking of the ZODB... Berkley Database Storage by Ethan Fremen Barry Warsaw and Jeremy Hilton of PythonLabs fame have been hard at work on a new storage for zope. This new storage, using the Berkely database from SleepyCat software, enabling a number of improvements over FileStorage.py. There are several storage implementations, but the one that matches FileStorage's abilities is the "Full" version. This version supports undo, versions, and automatic reference counting garbage collection. -- -mindlace- zopatista community liason