Hi all, I'm evaluating Zope platform and Zope products, just in a general way. My main goal is to find out if I can use Zope as a simple platform where we could develop and delivery web-based applications. The principal characteristics that a platform like what we are looking for has to have are: licenses (it has to be open source), if it has a rich set of products, it it has a great users community, if there is many available documentation (in Internet, in bookstores, etc), the possibility of integration with external databases, if it has a security model (and how strong is that model), if it gives the possibility of avoiding the interaction of a web master in all deployments, how many languages does it support and which ones, recommendations concerning the base product to be taken, which of these options is better and why: CMF + ZOPE, ZOPE only, CMF + PLONE+ ZOPE, if its easy installing new products and developing applications, about Clear Case integration, and what about stability/performance I know that this is a very large list of characteristics, but I will be very thankful if you can give me your opinions as you have been working in this platform more time than I have. So if you can give me your opinion or can send me an URL or some articles where I could find the description of some of this characteristics, it would be better. Regards, Gabriela. _________________________________________________________________ Charla con tus amigos en línea mediante MSN Messenger: http://messenger.yupimsn.com/