[thelist] Zope - opinions

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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'Some' relative to a much larger amount of pain later.

Some of that pain will also occur if converting to a more sophisticated php
system.

I've been down both routes before ('develop existing tool or move over to
more
capable tool?') a number of times, so I'm not just talking off the top of
my head.

Martin



Subject:    Re: [thelist] Zope - opinions

Except that converting the entire site to Zope right now would not just be
"some" pain now. In this case, it would be a big pain now. He or his system
administrators and the designers would have to learn how to use Zope (which
has a very steep learning curve), then convert the site, and finally train
the users how to use it. That's an awful big investment for the simple site
that the original poster described.


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From: <martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 5:12 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Zope - opinions

> >I think there's a LOT of space between what you're doing now and a
> [high-end]Zope
> >deployment.
>
> Yup, and either tool can fill some of that gap. Strategically, though,
> what's the
> direction? It's likely to be some kind of CMS, whether hand rolled as
> suggested
> by Robert, or pre-packaged (eg Zope). Experience suggests that
hand-rolled
> ones usually get ported to pre-packaged (with customisations) when the
cost
> and pain of maintaining a hand-rolled one becomes too great, at which
> point,
> the port is a *real* pain.
>
> So, some pain now, or a lot of pain later..?
>
> That's the basic question, which I don't think any of us here can answer
> for you.



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