The following was posted on:? www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Zope/Intro/comments.html/c1605/ Anyone have a response? ------------------------ Name: James Subject: Zope pitfalls Date: 10-13-1999 01:31AM Well on both Redhat 6.0 and 5.2 as well as Win 98 Zope seemed to run very well -- fast, stable and very configurable... Then we got deeper into it and the short story is any complicated math equations or scientific formulas drawn from the database objects bring the server to a halt... After tweeking and rewriting code, segmenting and a few other attempts we decided to stick with Php and MySQL which had never even hiccuped on us... I guess it (zope) has its place in a non commerce or inventory system... and of course it is still early in the development cycle. J--