[Zope] can I move my zope site off zope?

[Lennart Regebro]

From: "Jacob Singh" <jacob@prisonbooks.org>
> What I am worried about though is if I build my
> product without SQL(it is a task management/portal suite),  it will
> forever live on Zope

Yeah? And the problem is? :-)

> and getting to that data from other programs will
> be next to impossible.

Well, you can talk to a ZODB externally too, so next to impossible: Nah...
> I just want to make sure it doesn't get me in a proprietary bind.

It's open source, so that risk is minimal. :-)

To me, your logic seems to go like this:
"a) If I put my data in a ODBM like ZODB, I can't access it from a
RDBM-environment.
 b) If I put my data into an SQL database I won't use the full power of
Zope.
 c) Therefore I should not use Zope at all".

I don't really agree with the logic in that. :-) If you decide to put your
data into an RDBM environment to get SQL access then you will not get object
oriented benefits no matter what you do. You will have to choose: Go fully
OO, or wrap relational data in an OO suit. In any case, Zope seems to work
fin (although I don't know anything about your conserns when it comes to
distributred site. Maybe somebody else can fill in there).

Just for interest: What other products are you considering besides Zope?