[rescue] good price for a RaQ ?

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:03:02PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > Can't zope do that sort of thing along with everything else it does?
> 
>    You know, I've seen a fair amount of info on zope...but nowhere, 
> no-how, have I ever been able to get a good description of what it 
> actually *does*.
> 
>        -Dave

Basically, it is floor wax, dessert topping, AND can be programmed to
act as a Bass-O-Matic.

Zope is Python-based and has a pretty neat security system with
fine-grained access control, and permissions can cascade down - so a
user could add a user but they would be restricted to only the
permissions that the creator had, or less.

Plus, they have a template based HTML markup language like ASP or JSP.
They have their own built-in "object database" which you can use, or
you can connect to other databases.

There is a content management system, and everything can be done over
the Web.

They also have a lot of security holes in their product.

I have heard many people talk about Zope, but have yet to meet anyone
who is actually using it in production.  I think the reason is that
you could use Zope for development, but then factor out what you need
into straight Python; alternatively, for a content management system,
you might stick content into Zope but then just emit static HTML and
put that on the Web server.

Cordially
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