Hello Zopers This is serious business. As you know, I've been asking questions of various levels of ineptitude during the last few weeks. Meantime I've been building some entry-level ZClasses as part of the insides of Mosaic's Intranet. This culminated in a demo a couple of days ago, when I showed the one CEO and the rest of the communications department what I have been doing. Now it has filtered through that my demo has given our CEO a great deal to think about, and that he does think that a thoroughly collaborative intranet with distributed management authority is the way to go. Unsurprisingly, though, this has sent him straight to a Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Features Guide, as a possible Solution to All Our Problems (tm). Said CEO obviously has the authority needed to give me the go-ahead to use Zope. Now I need as much input as you are prepared to give on how to turn this into a win-win situation. In keeping with M$'s new way of doing things, Exchange does support the whole slew of interoperability protocols like LDAP, IMAP, POP, HTTP, S/MIME, X.509 v3, etc, etc. It also boasts sophisticated replication facilities for data and users. Surely there are good ways of leveraging Exchange's functionality within Zope? Conversely, where does Exchange fall down in a scenario like this? As hard-nosedly technical as possible please. What does it tie you into? What does it take away, as seen from a Zope perspective? How far do you get into Exchange with Python? Further -- what are all the most considerable Zope products that use Exchange? I know Worldpilot does, and any IMAP client would. But Exchange-specific stuff? Is anyone working on any of this? Zope is great within resource-constrained environments, but we don't have tight monetary or material constraints, so this isn't as much of an issue. -- Jean Jordaan -- technical writer -- Mosaic Software -- Zope 2.1.6 on WinNT and W2K