[Zope] Web Solutions provider - using Zope ok?

[Fires Star]

Hi, I am thinking of starting my own company providing
web solutions - portal, Content Management, etc...
Target market would be SME and enterprise that are
cost-concious.

In this over-crowded market, every other company seems
to be able to offer anything under the sun. And a lot
are choosing J2EE over here in South East Asia.

To differentiate, I have to select a platform/solution
that offers the competitive advantage such as rapid
prototyping, fast development, flexibility to cater
for changes, and cost-effective. All these which are
lacking from my experience with the J2EE vendors so
far... Which lead me to Zope - will it be able to
provide these features?

I am interested in Zope and will start to try it out
soon. I'm impressed by the built-in GUI management
interface. Can it fulfil the following enterprise
demand too?
- High-Availability and Load Balancing (ZEO?)
- Support for creating user groups by functions, and
assigning ACL, FAL (Feature Access List) to users
- Integration of User Accounts authentication with NT
Domain/LDAP/Netware etc.
- Creating Workflows based on business logic 
- Report generation tools

Regards,
Firestar
 




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