[Zope] PHP vs. Zope/Plone? Which better overall and for what?

[bruno modulix]

seberino at spawar.navy.mil wrote:
> I don't know much about web stuff.
> 
> I can see amazing power in Zope and thought PHP was just
> for quick and easy little projects.
 >
> However, I keep hearing about more and more big beefy
> web projects and companies using PHP.

And ?

> Without starting a flame war, is there a chance in future
> the power AND ease of PHP may win out over Zope?  

Power ? Which "power" ?

> Does
> Zope's architecture have some killer features that PHP
> can never copy?

Zope's architecture IS the killer feature that PHP can never copy.

Understand that Zope is an application server, while PHP is a hack meant 
to be a templating language.

> It seems Zope's steep learning curve is a showstopper for some.

May be.

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Bruno Desthuilliers
Développeur
bruno at modulix.org