Chris Withers wrote:
We all eagerly await these products of yours, please let us know where we can download them from :-)
I love open source...
We also love open source, and we contribute to Zope as much as we can. Our first development contribution to Zope was HiperDOM, an experimental DOM-based template system which was recognized by DC as a key motivator in the development of the new Presentation Templates. We have ceased further development of HiperDOM after DC announced ZPT, but you can download what we did at Zope.org. Now we are focusing our best development efforts on ZUnit, a XUnit-like testing framework to support Extreme Programming in Zope. We intend to post a new version shortly at Zope.org, but an early draft has been available for a while now. The new version will allow the creation of test suites within the Zope Management Interface. However, I believe our greatest contribution so far has been to increase the mindshare of Zope in Brazil, the 8th largest IT market in the World, and one even more dominated by Microsoft than the US domestic market. We have been the loudest Zope evangelists in our country since early 1999. We have installed Zope in AOL's Brazilian web site, on IDG's local news site and in many other sites belonging to important local brands. We've also trained more than 50 developers in Zope, including software engineers from the Brazilian Federal Senate and from Conectiva, the company behind the most popular Linux distribution in our country. And we are very active at the Portuguese-speaking Zope list. We are proudly sponsoring Paul Everitt as a Key-note speaker in the next edition of Linux Expo next May in São Paulo, and are organizing a Zope and Python track with three talks and one tutorial in that show. As for PHP and other languages, we would not use them ourselves, as we are very satisfied with Python, like I said earlier. I was just expressing my feeling that such support could be useful in popularizing Zope, and I never intended to start even a small flame war. But I guess programming languages is always an inflammable topic... My apologies to everyone. This is a great community, and as much as we can, and in spite of misunderstandings and language barriers, we love to be an active part of it! Best regards, Luciano Ramalho