Karlo Lozovina a écrit : (snip)
First one is something like a mathematical encyclopedia and online collaboration tool - mix between MathWorld (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/) and a Wiki of some kind (http://www.wikipedia.org).
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Second web is much less complicated - it's intended to be a mix between news portal and searchable database of medical and similar products.
Currently, I'm reviewing few options for implementing those two projects - plain Zope 2 or a Zope 2 based CMS (Plone, ZWiki, etc). If there is a Zope 2 based CMS that satisfies most of my requirements, I wouldn't mind using that.
For the first project, I don't think you'll find an out-of-the-box solution, nor you can reasonnably expect to forcefit it into a CMF based CMS. Zwiki could be a good starting block, then you're on your own IMHO. For the second one, I think it could fit into Plone but - depending on the complexity of what you call a "news portal", and unless you really need all the 'community portal' part of Plone - you may be better rolling your own product(s).
But, since Zope 2 will be someday replaced by Zope 3, I'm not that happy to use an already outdated product. That brings me to my next question - would it be smart to try to develop this using Zope 3? Is it mature and production ready enough?
I can't answer about stability and such - but if you don't intend to use an existing Zope2 CMS, you may as well take the Zope3 road... (I wouldn't bet my hand on this, but I think I saw a Zope3 port of Zwiki somewhere...)
There is a third possibility, try to do it from scratch
Err... YMMV, but I wouldn't do that.
using Python (since that is the only language I'm good in that is suited for web development), but that seems like to big hassle.
no comment...
There, that's all I can think of now, any thoughts, ideas, URL's are very much appreciated.
Zope has surely a lot to offer. But you may also want to check some other solutions, like Django or Turbogears (2 rails-like fullstack 'MVC' frameworks), or Myghty (HTML:Mason Python port). My 2 cents.