RE: [Zope] online collaboration tool
Alex, Thank you very much, it looks exactly like the thing I am looking for. Now, I am going to try to impress then. I have a question though, I have a REDHAT with zope and several windows 2000 servers, which one will you advice me to install it in? Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Alex Coventry [mailto:throwaway@MIT.EDU] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 10:37 AM To: Ramon Linan Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] online collaboration tool
My company is using eroom, they spent lot of money every month paying this tool, eroom is an online collaboration tool, I know that can be done with Zope, I am just starting using Zope, I Love it... the fact is that they want to get rid of it and me, I need some good argument for not loosing my job... I think if I can convince then of letting me developed a Zope version of eroom that would keep me safe here for a while.
I used plone for just this purpose, getting rid of e-room. (except the keeping-my-job part. :) I suggest you discuss it with your boss before you start on it, though. It's easy once you know how, but it was a bit of work for me. It may take you more than longer than an empty afternoon. I have found it relatively painless once it was going, though. OTOH, I recommended it to a friend, and he has found it to be a pain in the neck. YMMV. I strongly recommend installing and using TextIndexNG, as well as plone's explicit dependancies. This allows indexing of word documents, PDFs, etc. You do this by replacing the SearchableText object in the Indexes section of the portal_catalog with a TextIndexNG object. You want to turn on the "use converters" option when you install it. Then you click the "Reindex" button in the Indexes page. You may also want to play with the workflow, depending on how you want to use it for collaboration. One way to do this is to make Published the Initial State in the States tab of the workflow tabs. I also stuck my Zope web and webDAV services behind Apache SSL proxies. For that, a Virtual Host Monster is useful. HTH. Alex.
I installed it on a debian machine. My administration experience with anything else is so limited as to be useless, I'm afraid. Alex.
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 08:00, Ramon Linan wrote:
I have a REDHAT with zope and several windows 2000 servers, which one will you advice me to install it in?
It hardly matters for development purposes. I'd choose whichever one you feel most comfortable with or have root/admin privileges on. Probably you can run it as localhost:8080 on your desktop machine. The only real advice I'd offer is this: Don't do your development or learning on a machine currently being used as a production server. That's a *very* poor way to build job security. :-) As long as all the machines in question are reasonably modern there's little chance you're going to see a big performance difference until your app gets used by more than a handful of people. At that point, it's pretty easy to move from Windows to Linux or vice versa. HTH, Dylan
I'm familiar with eRooms. I used to work at a place that used that. If I still worked there, I'd be campaigning to get them to replace it with Plone. Lots cheaper, and more functional. But one can't go around saving former employers money.
I have a question though, I have a REDHAT with zope and several windows 2000 servers, which one will you advice me to install it in?
Personally, I think running Windows servers is a serious PITA. But aside from that, most reports I hear suggest that Zope runs a bit faster on Linux. Plus, if you use Linux, you'll be able to use DirectoryStorage, which is a Very Good Thing. --jcc -- "My point and period will be throughly wrought, Or well or ill, as this day's battle's fought."
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