Hi john, u can check out the benchmark here: http://weblogs.userland.com/qube/ regards, firestar ------Original Message------ From: John Morton <jwm@plain.co.nz> To: Curtis Maloney <curtis@umd.com.au>, theebh@mail.com Sent: July 6, 2000 4:12:33 AM GMT Subject: Re[2]: [Zope] Is Zope slow? AOLServer was called something else before AOL bought it. It's basically an httpd with tcl sitting on top of a nice API to such an extent that pretty much anything you'd want to do with a web server can be scripted in tcl. The neat thing is that it's been doing what mod_[your favourite language]+apache does since 1994. Philip Greenspun of 'P&A's Guide to Web Publishing' fame swear's by it. The question is - what were they doing in the benchmark? Zope, out of the box, is doing things like transactioning, authenication/authorization, acquisition for each hit, while AOLserver will only have that level of functionality if it's coupled with the ArsDigita Community System, and a suitable RDBMS (Oracle or maybe postgresql). We're almost certainly talking about an apples and oranges comparison, but I'd be interested in a look if someone has the URL. John ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup