I am currently evaluating Zope for our company intranet (which is currently running IIS on NT, Apache on Linux, Perl CGI on both, and MySQL on Linux. I am pretty impressed with how easily things work in Zope (once you figure it out). There is so much dynamic content on it that I think Zope will be perfect. I have a couple of questions that I haven't started to tackle yet. Why would I use Apache with Zope when it has its own HTTP server and seems to run okay (even right along side Apache)? Can I check the existance of external files from within Zope? I have a data base of CAD files. If they exist on a server I create a link to them, if they don't I just list them. Can I import data from a text file? I am currently using Perl to suck data from a text file that changes every day and throw it into MySQL. Can I continue to run this along side of Zope? Should work, right? How can I transfer my Zope stuff (Object database is it?) to another machine once I decide to impliment it on a real server? I guess I mean what files do I need and is there anything that will cause me grief? (I read the postings about the person who wants to copy one website to many servers. It looks like a non-trivial problem.) Thanks, Phil. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Philip Aylesworth Information Systems Manager phila@regalint.com PGP public key: http://www.regalint.com/PGPkeys/phila.html