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CMSWatch: Zope CMF (part 1)

Article about Zope CMF. Fairly incoherent article. Several amusing and stale observations like:

• " Specifically, Zope didn’t seem robust enough to compete with Java or Vignette for enterprise applications". I’ve heard this before from consultants who want to charge you tons of dollars for supposed to be hyper scalabality of J2EE or similar architecture. To run a web site, one reputed company presented us an engineering architecture that needed around 18 servers to run - using DCOM objects made using Java (hence open standards apparently) accessed through ASP scripts.


• " commercial extensions developed by the Zope Corporation, such as the ZEO clustering plugin...". I thought ZEO was free for download.


• "However, from what I’ve seen, hardcore Python programmers tend to be among the most zealous -- topping even Perl gurus for platform dedication. Therefore, Python tends to be a very self-contained universe". Since I’m no Python guru, I would say I’m not particularly zealous. However, Python being a self-contained universe is a good thing - I can do most programming tasks I want to in Python. I could do the same with Perl when I used to use it. So, I’m not sure why he considers it a bad point.

I think he had the same problems I had when I started with Zope - trying to see how I can make Zope do what I could do with ASP or PHP in the same ASP/PHP way. You need to switch to Zope paradigm - took me some time, but I think it is the most elegant paradigm for web applications.