From: Robert O'Connor [mailto:bob@rocnet.com] Where does Z Tables fit into the big picture? * Is it replaced or enhanced with ZODB3 ?
ZODB is the underlying Zope database. ZTables (at heart) is a way of publishing desktop data (like DBF files) on the web and augmenting that data with very fast indexing, hierarchical views, and other zope niceties. ZTables puts your uploaded data into ZODB. (At my job before I came here to Digicool, it's a product my old company could have benefited from tremendously. Instead, they converted all the DBF records to _INDIVIDUAL_ html files and searching was done with Glimpse. Ugh. Fortunately, a crafty Bobo app done by yrs truely made that a slightly less painful experience. But ZTables would have solved so many of the problems that we couldn't). I'll let Paul answer the rest.
* Is it or will it be open source? - If not, What does it cost?