Zope question: collaborative environments?

[Tom Bryan]

I plan to search more in the Zope archives and maybe discuss this question 
on one of their myriad of mailing lists or discussion boards, but I was 
hoping that someone might have a quick answer.

I'm a developer, and I'd like to create a combination discussion board, 
bug tracking system, and general collaborative environment.  I was 
thinking of using Zope, but I have never even looked at Zope.  Am I crazy 
even to consider using Zope when we won't have any dedicated staff to 
develop stuff for/in Zope and maintain it?  Is Zope easy enough to use, 
simple enough to maintain, and complete enough as a product that I could 
get something set up with just a couple of weeks of work and then simply 
use it?

Any advice before I waste a lot of time digging into this topic would be 
much appreciated.  (The time frame is very tight.  My boss is planning to 
lend me one of his personal machines to play put on my network at home as 
a zope or sourceforge or ??? server so that I can evaluate it next week.
He definitely wants something in place in the next few weeks.)

---Tom