[Zope] Playing the Devil's Advocate: Why Zope?

[BZ]

This is a Zope mailing list so I would be surprised if you got many 
people pushing you towards ASP, but here is why I have built things 
with Zope for the last 3 years.

1) Scalability - You can scale Zope with Zope Enterprise Objects to 
your hearts content. Check out http://www.cbsnewyork.com which runs 
on over 40 servers.

2) OO goodness. Object oriented programming is one thing but mix that 
into a website environment and you can do some pretty cool and quick 
things.

3) ZMI (Zope Managemnet Interface). Building and maintaining my sites 
through the web allows me to do things so much quicker and easier. I 
can sit down at any Internet connection and do some complex updating 
of my sites with only a browser. Try doing that with ASP.net you will 
have to carry around your 40 CDs to install all the dev tools on a 
Windows only machine.

4) CMF (Content Management Framework) is a great tool for setting up 
a interactive, workflow enabled, user based website model. The big 
boys like Vignette, Documentum, IBM and Interwoven will all do the 
same thing for half a million dollars.

5) Zope products. You want a quick FAQ engine? You got it. You want 
want a site just like Slashdot? you got it. You want discussion 
boards, data base adapters, photo products? They are all there and 
ready to install for the low low price of free. Some are more 
polished than others, but I have found that the polishing of them is 
the fun part.

And lastly (without a number) is probably the best and worse reason 
to pick Zope. It is open source. It is the best reason for your 
personal budget but the worst if  you are trying to sell to a company 
who still believes that you get what you pay for.

Oh... and the community of Zopsters is great.

BZ


At 12:04 PM +0200 8/9/02, EvH wrote:
>Hi,
>
>My dad is finally considering rewriting his business applications 
>from VB to the web... and asked me to check out the different tools 
>available. I know a bit about environments like Zope, OpenCMS, am 
>currently checking out VB.Net or "simple" languages like PHP.
>
>Could anyone experienced with those tools tell me why I should go 
>for ASP.Net, or even what is the point of prefering more complex 
>environments like Zope over PHP?
>
>Any hint much appreciated
>EvH.
>
>
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