[Zope] A Tale from IBM land...

[Farrell, Troy]

That's (kinda) how I started using zope.
I was told to build a system using Access.  I knew nothing about Access, but
I knew SQL.  Then it needed to be web-enabled.  I didn't have the cash for
NTServer/IIS/ASP, and I know linux, so I started looking at Opensource
stuffs that could talk to Access.  I looked at PHP, but it confused me (even
with my Perl/C background), and Zope had ZODBC and ZSQL methods.  I wrote my
first app in DTML and SQL on Access.  Then I discovered ZClasses. Then
Python Products.  There's no stopping me know.(though I haven't yet looked
at the catalog :S)  Since then, I've moved the site over to HP/UX and
PostgreSQL to handle the heavier load.

I write for a group of 20 users in a small intranet environment FWIW.

Troy

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy McKay [mailto:andym@ActiveState.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:51 AM
To: Charlie Blanchard; zope@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope] A Tale from IBM land...


> > from the existing M$ shop that they now are (VB, Access,
> > SQLserver) and that the staff will have to learn something
> > different, he wants thier 'buy in' and feels that to do so they

But they could keep a lot of stuff in SQLServer and Access and connect using
ODBC. Using a mix of familiar tools and practices makes the transition
easier. I hear of people starting off this route and then moving more and
more to Zope.

Cheers.
--
  Andy McKay.


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