[Tutor] Web programming advice

Chris Calloway cbc at unc.edu
Sun Sep 21 01:41:38 CEST 2008


On Sep 20, 2008, at 7:51 AM, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:
> Am 20.09.2008 um 00:01 schrieb Alan Gauld:
>> "Patrick" <optomatic at rogers.com> wrote
>>
>>> is of paramount importance. It appears to me that Django is an all- 
>>> in-one monolithic application. Years ago Zope was the number 1 and  
>>> now it's basically gone.
>>
>> Zope is still around but it has retreated into something of a niche
>> where it offers its own unique advantages, namely very large,
>> high volume sites. Zope is, I believe, also the engine underneath
>> Plone which is in itself something of a niche market content
>> management system.
>>
>
> Zope has not retreated into a niche, but has heavily evolved from  
> the technical point of view in the last years.
[snip]
> Plone is not a niche CMS, but the leading Python CMS if not the  
> leading Open Source CMS around.
[snip]
> So the answer to the OP is: Try out Grok to start with Zope. It is  
> great!


I'm so glad Jan wrote that so I didn't have to.

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