[Zope] References and Consulting

[J. Atwood]

> We're thinking of using Zope for a rather big project and because
> of that I wanted to ask if there are some references where Zope is
> used in a bigger environment.

The best examples are really the ones on Zope.org in the case studies. Not a
lot of numbers but a few.

> Also I would be interested in which companies in Germany are doing
> consulting for Zope and the like.

Check the references area of Zope.org

> We need this to have some arguments against other technologies.
> Are there maybe any benchmarks between Zope and Websphere or similar
> servers?

Here is one against Apache's Jakarta Tomcat.

http://www.zope.org/Members/BwanaZulia/zope_benchmarks/benchmarks.html

It should give you some idea but a big warning in benchmarking: The more the
server does the slower it will be. Zope is doing a ton of stuff besides just
serving up content so make sure that what you compare it to can/is doing the
same stuff.

Cheers,
J