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I guess Dave will also be glad to here about the Zope 2 alpha next week since it should improve Zope's scalability story a fair amount ;-)

-Amos

Amos, I reckon that I'll get told 'it depends' :) but can you give us an idea of what the Zope 2 release means in terms of features/throughput etc for folk using the 1.10 release?

Well, my understanding is that the main feature of Zope 2 will be ZODB 3. http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Models/ZODB This new object database architecture will allow concurrency in Zope request handling. Basically this means Zope will be multi-threaded. Also you will have more options for storing your Zope data, such as storing it in a RDMS. The upshot of these changes will be improved performance and improved scalability. You may even see exotic things like multiple Zope processes sharing one object database for load balancing or failover. But I'm not making any promises along these lines ;-) So in sum, Zope 2 means a more robust back end, not more user-visible bells and whistles. Of course, you should remember that the impending Zope 2 release will be an alpha source release. So don't switch immediately if you value stability. -Amos