[Zope] ZODB3 question

[Jimmie Houchin]

From thread:  RE: [Zope] Large Portal requirements (was: Other web servers?)
At 03:15 PM 6/14/99 -0400, Michel wrote:
>In the future, we will be have the client server model of ZODB3 (which
>will be a commercial product) that lets you have multiple Zope frontend
>processes (possibly on different machines) accessing multiple database
>backend processes (possibly on different machines).  Also, ZServer is
>currently multi-threaded, but there is no theoretical limitation to
>making it multi-process, in which each Zope instance will have it's own
>Python and thus it's own global Python lock, thus giving the OS the
>ability to schedule multiple processes among multiple processors, a
>little heavier than threads on multi-processor, but *vastly* easier to
>impliment and far more stable.

And then...

From thread: RE: [Zope] How stable is the 2.0 alpha release?
At 11:12 AM 6/16/99 -0400, Michel wrote:
>Yes, 2.0 alpha will work fine with an existing Database *if* you run it
>in ZODB2 mode (no concurrency).  If you run it in ZODB3 mode (the
>default) your Data.bbb file will not even be used, rather, a different
>file called Data.fs (fs = File Storage, remember, ZODB3 can use multiple
>backend stores) will be used.  Data.fs and Data.bbb are two different
>formats, and are incompatable.  Real Soon Now we will have a conversion
>script to upgrade from Data.bbb format to Data.fs format, but I for one,
>will promise no date.


To clarify my understanding.

Will their be a non client-server version of ZODB3 which offers concurrency
that will be a part of the non-commercial, open source part of Zope? 

Jimmie Houchin