[Zope] Zope Sites and Info Needed to Convince Boss

[Chris McDonough]

Well, I think you can rule out at least #3 right away.

3.  We (digital creations) provide for-fee support on Zope.  A few other
companies do too.

as for the others:

on #1.  he's probably right at this point if we wants to hire in-house
help :-)  this will change, however.

on #2.  This is a strawman argument.  How many hits does your site get
in a peak hour?  If it's fewer than 13000, and your site is about as
dynamic as zope.org you can run it on a sub-$1200 P450.  we are serving
about 2 million hits a month on that box and gaining.

on #4.  I would have to agree that ASP is popular.  it's not materially
more simple than zope, however.


Jatwood@bwanazulia.com wrote:
> 
> I have been trying to convince my boss for a few months to try and
> build our database driven website in Zope. The first round they built
> it in ASP (www.gotfundraising.com) and now not only is it slow and
> difficult to manage but it does not work the way it is supposed to.
> So here I am  trying to convince them to build it Zope (again). I
> have tried to talk about Open Source about functionality,  about
> developer communities etc. Here is where his argument comes down to.
> 
> 1) If you (me) get hit by a truck I will not be able to find anyone
> else to fix/build in Zope.
> 2) Can Zope scale to a big site and won't we just have to replace it
> with something else?
> 3) There is no technical support.
> 4) ASP is simple and a "standard"
> 
> So I have put together a list of articles, sites and arguments but I
> would love if anyone out there who has dealt with this situation can
> send me more material (I have combed www.zope.org). Anything would be
> great, sites running Zope, examples of what you have done, experience
> with ASP vrs Zope, comparisons to bigger products (Vignette).
> 
> This is one area where I really think Zope.org, Digital Creations and
> the user community need to strengthen which is the availability of
> information on the product, comparisons, etc. If Zope, like Linux is
> going to work and grow it needs to battle the FUD of all other
> products.
> 
> Whatever I get back will go towards an article/posting on my member
> page of Zope.org.
> 
> Thanks for all your help,
> JMA
> 
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