[Zope] Middleware discussion on InfoWorld

[Karl Fast]

That is the best definition of middleware I have ever heard. We need a 
zope dictionary filled with honest, modestly irreverant, direct, and
cut-through-the-hype definitions like this.


> * It's a goofy term much loved by marketdroids and journalists and CORBA
> people. It denotes server apps that sit in a "middle tier" of an
> n-tiered distributed system (such as a web-based database front-end,
> which is positioned between the client and the database server).
> Middleware is an euphemism for what programmers sometimes call "glue" or
> "this little Perl/Python script I chucked up last night" or, these days,
> "this nifty bunch of Z Classes that drive our internal document
> management system".


karl