Hi everyone, I have recently joined a small software development team in South Africa comprising of the best object people in the country. We have been tasked to build a financial supermarket using the numerous distribution channels including the web, fax, email, wap. I am currently investigating the suitability of using Zope to implement my presentation layer (as apposed to using Java servlets). To complete my Zope study I need to answers to the following: (1) Is the Zope VM threaded? Do the VMs get pooled? What happens if a VM gets bloated and old? (2) Is there a limit to the number of objects in a Zope repository? Who is currently running the biggest Zope site in terms of Objects and hits per day? How many repositories are being used? Do you guys know of any other large python driven websites? (3) How does ZEO ensure View consistency when numerous clients are transacting? How are transaction conflicts handled? (4) Where is the transaction log stored? How does one rebuild a Zope database after a server crash? Can transactions be lost? (5) How does a development team debug DTML? (6) Does Zope provide any resource pooling such as the J2EE products? (7) How does one provide a 24x7 service? What happens if you need to upgrade the Zope server? (8) When will the object database provide indexed collections? Thanks in advance Roberto