I arrived to Zope looking for its portal framework, at that moment called PTK. It happened to be exactly the kind of tool I needed, a cool framework to build different portal typologies on top of, instead of building them all from scratch. So if I was to use it I needed to learn Zope, no matter how steep the curve could be. That was more than three years ago. In the meantime LAMP has almost become the lingua franca for open source based web developers, and every day a new PHP application hits the streets in search of its community approval. It's difficult to resist the temptation of testing them, above all because some of its members have put them all in this fancy site opensourcecms.com Out there the niche for an OS portal-ready-to-wear is already filled by them, let's face it. I'm particularly impressed by the fine true end-user experience that the latest Mambo provides, as much as I'm tired of all those php-nukes aimed to populate the same portal style for everybody, even for "look-ma-my-portal" kids. Zope is a different beast. It's an extremely powerful one. I'm glad when I know a former PHP coder becomes almost a Zope evangelist, that I really hope we could have the chance to show off what we can do with all that horsepower. IMHO up to this moment, Zope doesn't have a killer application other than CMF. Ausum ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Bengtsson" <mail@peterbe.com> To: "Fred Yankowski" <fred@ontosys.com> Cc: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 7:25 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope article at Kuro5hin.org
From the introduction: "Recently I discovered Zope, and having understood its principles I decided to abandon my years of PHP experience in pursuit of a better way."
I, like him, had this experience too. How many people on the zope mailing list haven't had the same career experience?
Fred Yankowski wrote:
Someone has written a positive review of Zope over at Kuro5hin.org:
<http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/21/184222/896>
The responses so far tend to be from people who tried Zope and found it too confusing, big, and/or slow.
-- Peter Bengtsson, http://www.peterbe.com
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