Hei,

recently I posted a question about the “Best possible Zope installation”. I received a lot

of interesting answers. Out of them I read that the best possible Zope installation was

dependent on, amongst other things, system requirements and user preferences.

Within these dependencies there were quite a few options and a complex picture

of choices. This made me think about how it would be to have a graphical presentation

of the various options and choices.

As my background is ship design and naval architecture rather than computer science

(I often wish it was the other way around :) ), I have come across some good graphical

visualizations for speed and power ranges of ship engines. These show pretty well

what engine you should choose if you need a specific power and speed. Now I wonder

if it would be possible, and maybe beneficial, to have something similar for Zope?

These would then incorporate things like average and peak load, storage management,

security and so on.

To give some idea of the concept, I include here the link to one of Wärtsilä Diesels publications:

Wärtsilä Diesel is a main international ship engine supplier.

Browsing through this, in my opinion quite good, publication, will hopefully show some of the

benefits of such graphical visualization. If there is any problem with this link; use for instance

google to search for Wärtsilä Diesel, choose Wärtsilä Frontpage, choose Marine, choose

Publications, choose Marine Power Systems

Cheers

Børge Kjeldstad