hey Albert, In my opinion getting something like this together can not be done in less than 1 year. I'm familiar with workflow systems and very familiar with Zope. The projects you mentioned at the end of your letter are hardly of production value. You are looking at a major development undertaking. As far as EDM- its pure marketechture. A robust workflow management system that integrates into Zope is currently not available. You should determine exactly what you need, what is available, and go from there. There are many systems that say they are "workflow" and do entirely different things( Verve and Vitria are an example ). Again what you are doing is likely to be a major development undertaking. Good Luck! -josh zeidner I am looking for a workflow (WF) linked to a electronic document management (EDM) system and a groupware email based (I have just happened to come accross aethera from the Kompany) that would be free software and preferably in Zope + Python. The WF+DEM system I am looking for need to be usable with only a browser (to be independant from the client ... that could be proprietary !), store its data into a postgresql database. It should be demonstrablable (at least showable into a proof of concept) within 2 weeks and be already installable and usable within 2 or 3 months. (I have obtained taoday that the date when we'll decide on the system would be postponed 2 weeks from wednesday 24/1 to wed 7/2) If I could find such a marvel, I may find the money to pay for it, at least 50000 $ to start with (this amount is a rapid guess; I may give more precise amounts we could spend in the following week) The idea is to use that combination of tools INSTEAD of buying a closed, proprietary solution (that may exist but be expensive and really har to parametrize), that NEED to be linked to a SAP ERP system. All suggestions and ideas are welcome, also on the selection criteria. (I happen to be responsible for the IT dept of the public institution that wants to buy such a tool, but be new in the place and do not yet know a lot about WF and EDM !) Soon I may be able to give you more details about the requirements. I don't think there is such as system polished and ready within 2 weeks. Here are some starting points: use wftk as a basis, the open source workflow toolkit -- http://wwww.vivtek.com/wftk use openflow, a Zope based, but stalled project, http://openflow.sourceforge.net use Chautauqua, an old python based workflow system, http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~carlosm/chautauqua.html use the old UCI Endeavors workflow (java) system at http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/endeavors/endeavors.html We have not bit the bullet and built anything yet. Regards, Albert Boulanger aboulanger@vpatch.com _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )