[Web-SIG] Re: Just lost another one to Rails

[Ian Bicking]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Ian Bicking wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>> FWIW, I strongly suggested to Adrian that he call his project a CMS, 
>> not a web framework.  Sure, it is also a web framework, but who cares 
>> about another one of those?  It's interesting because it's a CMS, and 
>> it fills  a niche that isn't well filled right now. 
> 
> 
> Could you identify this niche a bit more clearly? There is one huge 
> Python-based CMS called Plone (which in my experience enjoys much the 
> same type of buzz as Ruby on Rails does), and there are others such as 
> Silva (which I've helped build) and CPS. To my eyes this niche is very 
> well filled. Is the difference that all these efforts are Zope based? Is 
> the niche a non-Zope-based Python-based CMS?

Well, it's not my product to define -- it's not even released yet -- but 
I wouldn't define it as non-Zope.  It's purely RBMS-backed, and all 
customization is done by a programmer.  In focus maybe it's more like 
OpenACS (at least my vague idea of what OpenACS does).  These are very 
different than the Zope CMSs, and I think it's valid niche.  "CMS" is a 
vague concept, and there's room for a large number of differentiated 
products.

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Ian Bicking  /  ianb at colorstudy.com  / http://blog.ianbicking.org