Perhaps you need to look at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue25/zope/ to see why to use Zope and in particular to portabilaty... -----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Jacob Singh Sent: 27 November 2001 16:55 To: 'Lennart Regebro'; zope@zope.org Subject: RE: [Zope] can I move my zope site off zope? Well, I'd probably use PHP/MySQL because of it's strong following and general knowledge. Also because of it's ease of portability. Also, it's easier because I know SQL programming and ZODB seems like a bitch work with because dtml is so limiting (to me), probably because of my ignorance of it. -----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org] On Behalf Of Lennart Regebro Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 11:03 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] can I move my zope site off zope? From: "Jacob Singh" <jacob@prisonbooks.org>
What I am worried about though is if I build my product without SQL(it is a task management/portal suite), it will forever live on Zope
Yeah? And the problem is? :-)
and getting to that data from other programs will be next to impossible.
Well, you can talk to a ZODB externally too, so next to impossible: Nah...
I just want to make sure it doesn't get me in a proprietary bind.
It's open source, so that risk is minimal. :-) To me, your logic seems to go like this: "a) If I put my data in a ODBM like ZODB, I can't access it from a RDBM-environment. b) If I put my data into an SQL database I won't use the full power of Zope. c) Therefore I should not use Zope at all". I don't really agree with the logic in that. :-) If you decide to put your data into an RDBM environment to get SQL access then you will not get object oriented benefits no matter what you do. You will have to choose: Go fully OO, or wrap relational data in an OO suit. In any case, Zope seems to work fin (although I don't know anything about your conserns when it comes to distributred site. Maybe somebody else can fill in there). Just for interest: What other products are you considering besides Zope? _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )