[Zope] Zope site testimonials needed

[Marquess E.. Lewis]

Christopher Petrilli wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 03:37:06PM -0400, Marquess E.. Lewis wrote:
> >
> > [asks for more testimonials and amens] :-)
> 
> What would help in providing this would be some idea of what use you're
> planning to apply Zope (or something else) to... 

We have several apps that would sit on zope:

1. Publication of hundreds of "articles" that have the same
behavior but different branding associated with each.  The 
content for these publications is created and managed by
non-techies.  Attribution and the Factory/Lever stuff is 
of particular interest here.

2. Customer support, subscription sales and e-commerce.  This
will talk to our existing back-office systems and would replace
our home grown app server and NetDynamics.  This sells product
over the web and provides the tools for the folks who answer
the phone that deal with customers.  Just lots of SQL, presentation
logic (what products are available, etc) and talking to our
existing business logic, much of which is alread in python.  Not too 
many worries here.

3. "Syndication" of content but the syndication is performed
by thousands of users for hundreds more users.  The base content
is developed by us by managed and created by non-techies as in 1).
But our customers munge it further for their customers.  This is
the "customers who have customers..." that zope seems to have been
built to support, but scaled up a lot.  A million page views per
day is not an unreasonable number.  Performance is a big worry here.
We know that the "alternative" can handle it but the price makes me
choke.

I hope the above is not "content free buzzword compliant".

Marquess
markl@shore.net