Dennis Nichols <nichols@tradingconnections.com> wrote:

At 11/28/00 11:34 AM, albert boulanger wrote:

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From: "Chris McDonough" <chrism@digicool.com>

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Ah. Well, my opinion is that it'd be fairly dangerous to make the assertion that (as great as they both are) Zope and the Zope community can "make up for" the other half of the capital they need to develop the software they want. So what's the decision they're trying to make? Whether to develop at all?

Whether to go with portal products from Plumtree or iPlanet.

If this implies that you are considering using Zope's PTK, then you should be aware of this: You can *not* get commercial support from Digital Creations for PTK because PTK is not a released product. If you think you may need such support before PTK gets to 1.0, then you had best not use the PTK. But that's no reason to not use the rest of Zope.

As the current product lead for the PTK, and a DC consultant who uses it every day in developing software for customers, I wouldn't say that your statement is, perhaps, misleading. While I'm not the person who negotiates support contracts for DC, I do know that DC sees the PTK as a key element of our future growth plans. In the meantime, most people get their support fo using the PTK from the place they get support for using Zope: right here on the lists: mailto:zope-ptk@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-ptk (I watch the PTK tracker, as well). Tres. -- =============================================================== Tres Seaver tseaver@digicool.com Digital Creations "Zope Dealers" http://www.zope.org