[Zope] Is Zope the Tool for This Job?

[beno]

At 04:43 PM 1/15/2003 -0800, you wrote:

>I have built a similar app ( secure intranet + extranet ) with Zope and 
>MySQL, but your hit rates are likely to be much higher than what I see.
>So Sybase or Oracle may be a better choice for you - if that is 
>prohibitive from a cost viewpoint try Postgres or MySQL with one of the 
>transactional storages(innoDB ...) although I have not used either and 
>have no real world data on transactional storages in MySQL.

Hmm. I've heard excellent results about the scalability of MySQL. Perhaps 
I'll put out a feeler there.


>Zope will definitely make the app development part of the job much faster 
>and simpler.

That's what I thought too. Thanks for the confirmation.

>- not sure about the "ability to support multiple languages" part

Nor are we, actually! I'm proposing we write the whole thing in XML. That 
way, we can easily write XSLT stylesheets for whatever purpose, including 
*to support multiple languages*.
Thanks ;)
beno