[Zope] (Fwd) Zope musings

[Scott Robertson]

On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Christopher G. Petrilli wrote:

> > I thought there were two parts to it? One being slight mods to to the web
> > server and the other was a set of cgi scripts. Dosen't Microsoft give
> > those extensions away though? Hmmm I wonder how hard they could be to
> > reverse engineer.  
> 
> The point is, they are one more proprietary system... WebDAV *is* where
> companies are moving to, even Microsoft has committed to it for the next
> release of FrontPage.  The time it would take to reverse engineer FP's
> extensions could be better spent making Zope a better WebDAV platform,
> in my opinion.  Also, I know a lot of people who won't touch FP, and use
> something else---DreamWeaver, or my favorite GoLive CyberStudio, which
> has its own set of extensions (though you can run without them too).  Do
> we want to support all those too? ;)  This is the point of standards.
> I've already been told by the GoLive people that they're planning to
> support WebDAV "soon", and probably in the next release due this year.
>

We have 3 types of customers.

1. That dosen't care what we use, how we use, and who we had to kill to
get it done as long as we get it done and it works right.

2. Those who are knowledgeable and only call us when they need some one
   local to fix something (i.e. DC).

3. Those who think they are in the number 2 category because they own a
   copy of FP, and are shocked when you show them that their pretty web
   page, made from a template of course, is actauly made from some tyoe of
   voodoo commonly refered to as HTML. 

But you are right WebDav sounds like the ideal approach, most time
efficent solution. I just have a lot of customers that use FP and I wish I
could make the stop <g>. But then again maybe it's just a personal
vendetta.

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