Unfortunately Jaroslav, we solve technical problems on this mailing list. Office politics are a bigger challenge ;-) I fully agree with you that Zope is far better than most systems available. It's why I can survive as a 1 man service company. If it weren't so powerful, I wouldn't have so many happy customers. Yes, it means less money per project, but it also means more projects and a wider range of experience. Zope and the CMF are very powerful because they provide: * templating languages (DTML/ZPT) * python scripting * workflow (in CMF) * builtin user management * ZODB for native object storage (big plus :) * easy connectivity to RDBMS * sessions * easy python object publication * much prebuilt content items with third-party products (many are free :) I don't know if those points help you, but I've tried. Thanks for using Zope. Troy Jaroslav Lukesh wrote:
Hi all,
My chief tell me that I need forget to Zope, because Nfuse-Elite from Citrix will be better - it cost long money, so our customers will pay more (ve are Value-Added-Reseller mainly).
But NFE is nothing more than _few_templates_ and (of course) one DLL ISAPI library for IIS. CDA (Content DElivery Agents) are in Zope similar too, but more powerfull. And NFE cost ten-thousands USD.
CDA is written in Visual Basic (we have one programmer in VB), Zope need Python (I was start to learn Python, but must break :-((
Could somebody show me some more aspect for Zope to argumentate?
And how to sell open-source solutions? Chief says me that I does not make profit with open-source solutions. I am not businessmann, I am technician and chief and our businessmans is microsoft-ass and is not able to sell solutions in open-source. He sells software, hardware and mainly _service_time_. With Zope I have very small amount of service time to our customers, SW is free, so customers pay very very little and chief is like orangutan.
For Example. I have 20 service hours/month, my college that make M$ solutions have 150 hours/month and working in nights and so. Clients that I serve are settle with my services.
Time to change company?
Many thanks, J. Lukesh