At 05:33 13-6-99 , Paul Everitt wrote:
Thus my question: How much would allowing record storage and management in something you might trust (e.g. bsddb) alleviate the black-box feeling?
The fact that Zope 2 can store in a RDMS definitely alleviates that feeling for my colleagues, who are still somewhat Zope illiterate. But we will need tools to read the information stored in that DB, so it is accessible from other applications. We have been working with Informix Universal DB for some time here, and they are intrigued by a Web Application Platform that is object oriented, in as such that it stores information that it knows how to handle. I personally cannot bide with the informix way of connecting it's data to the web (no more MIval!). If the Zope data stored in a RDMS can be accessed by other apps, this would be benificial to promoting Zope to people that think in RDMS's as an end to all Web Applications, even though I personally don't see a direct use for such access. -- Martijn Pieters, Web Developer | Antraciet http://www.antraciet.nl | Tel: +31-35-7502100 Fax: +31-35-7502111 | mailto:mj@antraciet.nl http://www.antraciet.nl/~mj | PGP: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8A32149 ------------------------------------------