That's (kinda) how I started using zope. I was told to build a system using Access. I knew nothing about Access, but I knew SQL. Then it needed to be web-enabled. I didn't have the cash for NTServer/IIS/ASP, and I know linux, so I started looking at Opensource stuffs that could talk to Access. I looked at PHP, but it confused me (even with my Perl/C background), and Zope had ZODBC and ZSQL methods. I wrote my first app in DTML and SQL on Access. Then I discovered ZClasses. Then Python Products. There's no stopping me know.(though I haven't yet looked at the catalog :S) Since then, I've moved the site over to HP/UX and PostgreSQL to handle the heavier load. I write for a group of 20 users in a small intranet environment FWIW. Troy -----Original Message----- From: Andy McKay [mailto:andym@ActiveState.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:51 AM To: Charlie Blanchard; zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] A Tale from IBM land...

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from the existing M$ shop that they now are (VB, Access, SQLserver) and that the staff will have to learn something different, he wants thier 'buy in' and feels that to do so they

But they could keep a lot of stuff in SQLServer and Access and connect using ODBC. Using a mix of familiar tools and practices makes the transition easier. I hear of people starting off this route and then moving more and more to Zope. Cheers. -- Andy McKay. _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )