I don't know Amadeus or uPortal, but since you express some disgruntlement (which I share) over CMF, have you looked at Plone (http://www.plone.org/)? It's based on CMF, easy to install and fully usable "out of the box". --A.
-----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org] On Behalf Of Kyler Laird Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 6:49 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Does Zope stack up as a portal?
This is going to be a horribly-formed request, but I'm looking for some guidance on evaluating a product being pitched. The product is UNICON Academus. http://www.unicon.net/academus/products/overview.html
It's based on uPortal http://mis105.mis.udel.edu/ja-sig/uportal/ a "free, sharable portal under development by institutions of higher- education." UNICON's offerings appear to be closed and, at least for the authoring tool, MS Windows-only.
I want Free tools. uPortal is better than something like Blackboard, but it still has some severe limitations due to its licensing. I'm wondering if I can confidently say that Zope can readily perform the same functions.
I like using Zope for most everything these days, but every time I go to battle against CMF, I come away ready to continue using other methods for awhile. I suspect that CMF is what I would need to use to get uPortal/Academus-type functionality without starting from scratch.
So...any opinions? I'm looking for comments like "Zope can't touch Academus without a *lot* of work" or "Oh, yeah, just fight through CMF and you're almost there." Specifics would be great, but I'll be happy just to get some insight. (If there's something besides CMF that can handle this role, I'll be especially interested.)
Of course, I'd also be happy to receive offers to provide Academus-like functionality in Zope using Free software for a price on the order of that of Academus. (I don't know how much they charge yet, but I will soon.)
Thank you.
--kyler
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