[Zope-dev] The Product API is not easy to use!

[Patrick Phalen]

On Fri, 02 Jul 1999, Josh Zeidner wrote:

> > > Maybe a better question would be :  are there
> > > products from
> > > business organizations that are modelled more traditionally( revenue
> > > obtained through licenseing ).  Examples of which might be
> > > listed above.  On
> > > a similar topic, how does Digital Creations obtain revenue?

and

>   -- so possibly you see Zope as a sort of "residue" of your companies real 
> products( solutions providing )?

and

> > > Whats to stop a company such as mine to take Zope
> > > and totally
> > > bypass Digital Creations?  Has such a thing happened before?

and

>   -- therefore you count your companies assets not in patents or copyrights, 
> but rather in your ability to use and leverage existing technology like 
> Zope.

and 

> > >   On a less related topic... is Frontier( or any of the
> > > products listed
> > > above) similar to Zope?

and

>   -- Is this the new version of Zope you are talking about?
>   -- when will this be available for WinNT?

and

>   -- How does digital creations cover the overhead involved for doing things 
> like packaging releases... coordinating Zope site, ect...

and

>   -- It is my contention that the software industry is moving in the 
> direction of "Open Source" licensing.  However, I have found that companies 
> cannot let thier mission-critical systems ride on the development efforts of 
> three million hobbyists( "a thousand voices" ).  Systems( +languages? ) must 
> be created to allow for efficient collaboration and Quality Assurance( a 
> development democracy!!! ).  Do you have any ideas in mind for how this work 
> could be carried out?


Josh,

I see no questions, in your seemingly interminable series of them, which
you couldn't answer for yourself  simply by visiting www.zope.org and
*reading* the information contained there -- much like most of the rest
of the subscribers to this list have done.