Chris, Max, Andreas, thanks for your comments. I am still wondering if /hoping Zope is the right tool. As I said I am pretty technical but completely new to Zope/Phyton and for now I "just" have a urgent need I thought is pretty generic: * Setup a "portal" where a small team/community can share docs, links and maybe discussions. * Docs must be categorized (users can add new categories), provide upload capability * UI must be super-simple (no Zope management stuff) - simply allow users these basic features (create new doc, upload, create news/links/discussio) and nothing more To give you guys an idea of a pretty good solution from the Evil Empire - look at MSFT Team Services (http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/sharepoint/fastfacts.htm) or the So why do I just not give in and use MSFT ? 1) I prefer open source alternatives to the evil empire 2) I like what I see in Zope/Plone and _think_ it could fit but I need a minimum set of out-of-the-box features I currently don't see (seems like zope has too much stuff <- this always happen in tech communities - geeky stuff takes overhand) 3) Zope is customizable so once I get the hand on it I can see myself adding new features that closed MSFT prods do not allow... So tell me - are my req's that stange? How much work would it be to get Zope/Plone close to the MSFT Team Services? Niels Re: the ZODB: One pretty important requirement is that members should be able to take a snapshot of content from the site for offline work (reading while flying or otherwise offline) Haveing everything in a file system (that can be mapped) is the easiest way..I think. I had mixed emperienced with Zope's WebDAV - basically one can mostly not use W2K explorer for copy/paste - explorer<->Zope WebDav just don't work well together and I cannot change the fact that 99% of team members are on W2K clients..
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