What kind of business is your company in? Perhaps you could describe the problem domain you wish to tackle? For certain problem domains, certain tools may or may not be more or less appropriate. Zope is a very good general purpose toolkit, but I can think of quite a few applications where it would be leaps and bounds better than other choices. I guess the answer really depends on what you want to do. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Robb Allen [mailto:myself@robballen.com] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 6:17 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Zope vs. the Big Boys Honestly, how does Zope compare to some of the big names such as BEA and WebSphere? My company is looking at spending a lot of money in the Application Server realm, and I wondered how Zope stacks up against them. We're two shakes of a pen away from purchasing something, and I'd like to at least come back with an open-source solution just so that we can compare something. Fire away. I need as much ammo as I can get (although, honestly, I'm leaning towards BEA) R _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )