----- Original Message ----- From: "Heimo Laukkanen" <huima@fountainpark.org> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 15:23 Subject: [Zope] Why would YOU use Zope? ( or any other tool besides the 'industry standard')
For a customer the Java platform seems secure. They have read about Java and know it as a term. They have an idea that if they buy Java, they can later on also find someone else who can continue the work done now and that way they would make a secured investment.
Java is free, but you have to pay $$$$$$ for J2EE platforms. If you have an already existing Java infrastructure it makes sense to continue the development on Java. You could use Jython to use the Java functionalies and API inside Python.
If we forget the price discussions, what are the arguments for choosing something else than 'industry standard'? How to make sure to a client, that their investment is secured and they have made a good selection for their web services.
The price discussion is important because you can either spend lots of dollars for a commercial product with bugs and/or a bad support or you take open-source software like Python and Zope and spend a small part of the money to get support from a company like ZC. I have made very bad experiences with a product from the so-called "leader" in the database market. Although we paid money for the product and support, they we were unable to fix their product during a period of over one year. Using "industry standard" software is no gurantee that you will succeed with this software. Andreas