Hi Peter, your advice is much appreciated. I'll spend some time reforming it and trying to get clear on its purpose. For the moment I think it should develop into a general analysis of what it takes to build a business based on zope. This assesment should include Zope's strength and weaknesses, how one can capitalize on the former and ameliorate the latter. Further there could be proposals on how to do client acquisition. How to contact prospective clients and which ones are the those that have the most to gain and are therefore the most receptive for this technology? Which Zope-aspects should be emphasized in marketing - how? Given time and interest chapters regarding financing, marketing, hiring ... could be added. I'll alert you when I'm ready with rearranging things a bit. Andreas your message:
No, don't make it an open ZWiki. Take responsibility of it (lock it) and let logged in Zope Members add comments at the bottom of the page.
If I ask you: "What is your little text about?" What would you answer then? I meant that it isn't very clear what it's about or it's purpose. Why have you written it and what do you aim to conclude? Perhaps you should more precisly decide where you want to pour the cement before we start reshaping it (with comments) when it has dried in the wrong place :)
You mentioned CMF, not a product, but a framework. I see that more and more products tend to store their "data" part in Python and "view" part in templates of some kind. That way you can use the "data" part as framework and rewrite the "view" part yourself for your own needs. And that's a very very big step in the right direction I reckon.
Take care, Peter
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