From: "Terry Hancock" <hancock@anansispaceworks.com>
In my research of online collaborative systems I frequently see references to MOO or MUD based systems. After some reading on the subject, it seems to me that the Zope OFS could be considered a MOO -- or at least very much like one.
Can anybody comment on that?
Well, yes. I did write a MUD in LambdaMOO once, and there are many similarities, mostly the use of simple but extensive object oriented script languages and object stores.
What (if anything) would a MOO server system be more adept than a Zope server at?
Making text-based multi-user dungeouns. That is after wall, what they were made for. :-)
And would it be logical to emulate MOO-based technologies using Zope OFS as the database?
I don't think emulate is the right word. ZODB (which I assume you are referring to) is a generic object store. It would be perfectly possible to write a MUD in Python + ZODB. No problems at all. The rest of Zope may not be as useful for it. The permission system surely would be nice, though. A web-based MUD? Yup. Surely Zope would rule at that.
I've essentially already committed to using Zope at the core of my application
And you might get more helpful answers if you tell us what that application is. :-) //Lennart