Killer Apps???

[William Tanksley]

On 18 Feb 2000 12:53:35 GMT, Fred Pacquier wrote:
>insanik at hotmail.com (Nick Henderson) said :

>>I am new to the world of programming and python.  I know Zope is super
>>cool and is python's "killer app."
>>I was wondering if there were any other such killer apps?

>An impressive one, that first sold me on the power of Python, was the 
>Web groupware app BSCW (bscw.gmd.de). It was definitely way ahead of its 
>time as far back as 1996, and I have yet to see anything approaching its 
>functionality/ease of use ratio in the open source world of today (yes, 
>Zope does more, but Zope is hard :-).

Really.  I learned HTML using Zope -- I thought it was amazingly simple.
I'll have to check out bscw.

>Interestingly, BSCW started out as open source before it got trendy, and 
>went against the times by going commercial in 1998...

Hmm.

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