[Zope] Zope article at Kuro5hin.org

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I arrived to Zope looking for its portal framework, at that moment called
PTK. It happened to be exactly the kind of tool I needed, a cool framework
to build different portal typologies on top of,  instead of building them
all from scratch. So if I was to use it I needed to learn Zope, no matter
how steep the curve could be. That was more than three years ago.

In the meantime LAMP has almost become the lingua franca for open source
based web developers, and every day a new PHP application hits the streets
in search of  its community approval. It's difficult to resist the
temptation of testing them, above all because some of its members have put
them all in this fancy site opensourcecms.com

Out there the niche for an OS portal-ready-to-wear is already filled by
them, let's face it. I'm particularly impressed by the fine true end-user
experience that the latest Mambo provides, as much as I'm tired of all those
php-nukes aimed to populate the same portal style for everybody, even for
"look-ma-my-portal" kids.

Zope is a different beast. It's an extremely powerful one. I'm glad when I
know a former PHP  coder becomes almost a Zope evangelist, that I really
hope we could have the chance to show off what we can do with all that
horsepower. IMHO up to this moment, Zope doesn't have a killer application
other than CMF.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Bengtsson" <mail at peterbe.com>
To: "Fred Yankowski" <fred at ontosys.com>
Cc: <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope article at Kuro5hin.org


> From the introduction: "Recently I discovered Zope, and having
> understood its principles I decided to abandon my years of PHP
> experience in pursuit of a better way."
>
> I, like him, had this experience too.
> How many people on the zope mailing list haven't had the same career
> experience?
>
>
> Fred Yankowski wrote:
> > Someone has written a positive review of Zope over at Kuro5hin.org:
> >
> > <http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/21/184222/896>
> >
> > The responses so far tend to be from people who tried Zope and found
> > it too confusing, big, and/or slow.
> >
>
> -- 
> Peter Bengtsson, http://www.peterbe.com
>
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