[Zope] Macromedia SiteSpring

[Ron Bickers]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Mario
> Valente

>   Just a quick heads up so that you all are aware of a
>  possible Zope competitor or, if you take a opposing view,
>  to be aware of someone blatantly copying Zope ;-)

This appears to be not at all a Zope competitor.  From the FAQ:

"Is Sitespring a content management system?
   No. Sitespring is a Web site production management system...
   ...Sitespring does not manage deployment of files and content
      to live production Web servers..."

>From the feature list, it looks more like a combination of MS
Outlook/Exchange collaboration and CVS or other file versioning product
rolled into a Web interface.  That's clearly an oversimplification of what
it is, but I think it's a fair big picture.

>   Emulation aside, it does raise some issues, namely on the
>  workflow/communicate functionalities. How is Zope going to
>  cope ? Do we have products available that bring Zope up to
>  the same level ?

It would certainly be nice if Zope had more of these features, but Zope is
so much more than just this.

The starting price of $1999 for the server and 3 user licenses, plus $499
for additional user licenses is kind of scary too, but I suspect that the
target companies for such a product can afford it.  They also indicate that
there will be versions for "other" platforms than Windows, but don't say
which or when.

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Ron Bickers
Logic Etc, Inc.