From: "Chris McDonough" <chrism@digicool.com> Cc: <zope@zope.org> References: <200011281450.JAA01114@ox.ldgo.columbia.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:41:50 -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: 851
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.
Ah. Well, my opinion is that it'd be fairly dangerous to make the assertion that (as great as they both are) Zope and the Zope community can "make up for" the other half of the capital they need to develop the software they want. So what's the decision they're trying to make? Whether to develop at all? Whether to go with portal products from Plumtree or iPlanet.