[Zope] questions before I get started

I had never heard of Zope till last week. I have successfully installed the program and am able to bring up the management doc I posted a question on another newsgroup stating I needed to produce a database for our company equipment that could be edited via a web browser. The answer came back to use Zope. Before I spend a bunch of time on this I would like to know if this is the right tool , and how in-depth of an understanding I will need to produce such a thing. From looking around it seems there possibly may be something out there that someone may have written already. Raymond