[Zope] NewsScan- Ultraseek or ZTables

[Robert O'Connor]

The ZOPE site has a description of use with Ultraseek:
http://www.zope.org/Community/CaseStudies/NewsScan/

"...The fundamental breakthrough that Zope provided was 
to turn Ultraseek Server's search engine into a "Database Adapter", 
as if it were a relational database. Then the Zope architecture 
becomes responsible for all Web interactions with 
the customers, thus supporting the business model...."

If the client News-Scan wasn't using the ultraseek server
could ZTables and some Zope interface do the 
same thing?

Ultraseek seems expensive at $1 per document with
1000 document minimum and $0.50 per document
up to 10,000 documents.
http://software.infoseek.com/products/ultraseek/ultraprice.htm

What are the benefits of using ultraseek versus a pure ZOPE
solution?

Yes, I know that ZTables is not yet open source but I assume
that it will be available ... "Real Soon Now" !  

-Bob OConnor  bob@rocnet.com
"May the Source be with you!"