At 11:13 20-07-2001 -0400, Ron Bickers wrote:
Just a quick heads up so that you all are aware of a possible Zope competitor or, if you take a opposing view, to be aware of someone blatantly copying Zope ;-)
This appears to be not at all a Zope competitor. From the FAQ:
"Is Sitespring a content management system? No. Sitespring is a Web site production management system... ...Sitespring does not manage deployment of files and content to live production Web servers..."
Yes. Indeed. But keep in mind that ColdFusion does that part. And SiteString interfaces to it....
Emulation aside, it does raise some issues, namely on the workflow/communicate functionalities. How is Zope going to cope ? Do we have products available that bring Zope up to the same level ?
It would certainly be nice if Zope had more of these features, but Zope is so much more than just this.
Sure. Thats not under discussion. But those functionalities sure are nice.
The starting price of $1999 for the server and 3 user licenses, plus $499 for additional user licenses is kind of scary too, but I suspect that the target companies for such a product can afford it.
The price advantage of Zope has been discussed enough.
They also indicate that there will be versions for "other" platforms than Windows, but don't say which or when.
There's a Java version. That will do for "other" platforms ;-) C U! -- Mario Valente