From: "Chris McDonough" <chrism@digicool.com> References: <200011281437.JAA01077@ox.ldgo.columbia.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 10:04:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Length: 1049 ----- Original Message ----- From: "albert boulanger" <aboulang@ldeo.columbia.edu> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 9:37 AM Subject: [Zope] Factoids for supporting zope
I am going through a justification (risks) of the use of Zope for a corporate client. Framing things as an Open Source play relies on the health of its community for its longevity and access to expertise for support. I remember some number tossed out when the Members folder at zope.org went to Btree. What is the current # of Members? Is this an estimate of the Zope community? I think there is probably some dead wood in that # but at least its an estimate. I remember it being over 10K.
Not sure...
Our client thought that the recent VC money was about 1/2 what would be needed to make it fly. My argument is that money is leveraged by the active Zope community so a crux in my logic is how strong this community is.
1/2 of what would be needed to make it fly with Zope? Or 1/2 of what would be needed with any app server? Since they come from a non Zope context it would be from the general position and the onus is on me to bring in the Zope context in the construction of my argument. Regards, Albert