[Zope] Web Solutions provider - using Zope ok?

[Fires Star]

Hi Adam, thanks for your reply and pointers. Very
informative!

To move into enterprise market, I think a lot of
effort is required to fight the 'J2EE hype'. Most of
the companies now would like to hear 'J2EE-compliant'
solutions being used by the vendor. They would like an
'open standard' that their future purchases can work
with. A non-j2ee solutions provider would need to
convince them otherwise (e.g. thru cost-benefit
analysis) 

Another requirement would be to provide Single Sign-on
 portal feature to multiple applications, including
external apps in other platform (Java, Perl, etc).
There will be a need for APIs in the solution to
allows external apps to call and authenticate with. Is
this currently available in zope?

--- Adam Manock <abmanock@earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 04:04 AM 7/23/02, Fires Star wrote:
> >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?)
> 
> Yes. see http://www.zope.org/About for an example
> :-)
> 
> >- Support for creating user groups by functions,
> and
> >assigning ACL, FAL (Feature Access List) to users
> 
> Zope's native support save you a LOT of coding time
> here.
> 
> see
>
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZopeBook/Security.stx
> 
> >- Integration of User Accounts authentication with
> NT
> >Domain/LDAP/Netware etc.
> 
> Also see:
>
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZopeBook/Security.stx
> 
> and: http://www.zope.org/Products/user_management
> 
> 
> >- Creating Workflows based on business logic
> 
> See: http://www.zope.com/Demos/cm3 for a demo
> (quicktime or flash)
> 
> >- Report generation tools
> 
> ??
> 
> Dynamic SQL + presentation templates has given me
> all the reports I'll ever 
> need :-)
> 
> >Regards,
> >Firestar
> 
> Two other notes:
> 
> The Zope community is awesome, and generally very
> helpful. :-)
> 
> I've seen experienced Java developers working as
> Zope newbies complete 
> projects
> 5-10 times faster using Zope. Of course they are
> still Java geeks, and want 
> to use
> Java for their next project...  Oh well...
> 
> Adam
> 


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