Joachim Werner wrote:
Zope 2.x, together with the CMF, was "sold" bei DC/ZC as a content management product,
No it wasn't, it was sold as a Content Management Framework, ie one of these:
It is a good start for building one,
Zope is a nearly perfect document storage, except for its server implementations for FTP (and partly also HTTP/Web-DAV) will not be too useful with major system load.
Not lots of big documents, especially if they change often ;-)
- a database layer that includes alternatives to the ZODB (using products like DBObjects or the new stuff from 7x
Well, just a better abstraction of objects -> storage. ZODB is currently too slanted towards storing object irrespective of their structure. It needs to get more intelligent in the same way that DBObjects is...
what Microsoft is doing. I don't ask you to USE their software, but we should at least try to get inspired by the good ideas they have (or have collected from others who had them first).
I agree, we should beat them at their own game :-)
What we need in that part of Zope is high-performance real-time cataloging and searching,
Gimme a chance :-P cheers, Chris