[Zope] Does Zope stack up as a portal?

[Alexander Staubo]

I don't know Amadeus or uPortal, but since you express some
disgruntlement (which I share) over CMF, have you looked at Plone
(http://www.plone.org/)? It's based on CMF, easy to install and fully
usable "out of the box".

--A. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org] On 
> Behalf Of Kyler Laird
> Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 6:49 PM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Does Zope stack up as a portal?
> 
> 
> This is going to be a horribly-formed request, but I'm 
> looking for some guidance on evaluating a product being 
> pitched.  The product is UNICON Academus.
> 	http://www.unicon.net/academus/products/overview.html
> 
> It's based on uPortal
> 	http://mis105.mis.udel.edu/ja-sig/uportal/
> a "free, sharable portal under development by institutions of 
> higher- education."  UNICON's offerings appear to be closed 
> and, at least for the authoring tool, MS Windows-only.
> 
> I want Free tools.  uPortal is better than something like 
> Blackboard, but it still has some severe limitations due to 
> its licensing.  I'm wondering if I can confidently say that 
> Zope can readily perform the same functions.
> 
> I like using Zope for most everything these days, but every 
> time I go to battle against CMF, I come away ready to 
> continue using other methods for awhile.  I suspect that CMF 
> is what I would need to use to get uPortal/Academus-type 
> functionality without starting from scratch.
> 
> So...any opinions?  I'm looking for comments like "Zope can't 
> touch Academus without a *lot* of work" or "Oh, yeah, just 
> fight through CMF and you're almost there."  Specifics would 
> be great, but I'll be happy just to get some insight.  (If 
> there's something besides CMF that can handle this role, I'll 
> be especially interested.)
> 
> Of course, I'd also be happy to receive offers to provide 
> Academus-like functionality in Zope using Free software for a 
> price on the order of that of Academus.  (I don't know how 
> much they charge yet, but I will
> soon.)
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> --kyler
> 
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