[Zope] comparing Zope with Vignette, IPS and others

[Thaxter, Jason M.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martijn Pieters [mailto:mj@antraciet.nl]
> Pity its closed source and probably very expensive (they do not quote any 
> prices..). Also, their minimal hardware requirements are 
> pretty tough, and 
> it only runs on Solaris and NT.. I can go on with quite a 
> list where Zope 
> has the better. Especially the URLs. No search engine is ever 
> going to 
> index their site.

Just looking at those URLS makes me nauseous!

Seriously, Zope's acquisition permits movement away from these ridiculous
thousand-meter query strings.  There is no solid reason for a query string
to be tracking anything other than search data and possibly user-session
info if it can't be stored in a session cookie.

Which means that someone's home page URI should never be more complicated
than /index.html, and Zope is a good reminder that even that is unnecessary.