Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: OpenACS or ZOPE

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5: Re: OpenACS or ZOPE (response to 1)
Posted by mary johnson on 11/05/03 12:09 PM
I did a mistake. I wanted to ask about the advantages of OpenACS over Zope. Sorry!

I think you are right and I have to explain a litle more about our necesities.

- I need a solution for a Collaborative based intranet (mail, calendaring service, forums, mailing lists,...).

- Workflow applications are also important for us.

- Documental management. It would be interesting to have a WebDAV access and the posibility of doing document searches.

- Perhaps we would take users from an Active Directory

- We are an organization of about 300 people

- About DB, I think Oracle is too much expensive for us. I think PostGreeSQL would be our choice. Is it all right?

- It would be an multi-language space.

Thank you.

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8: Re: OpenACS or ZOPE (response to 5)
Posted by Dirk Gomez on 11/05/03 03:00 PM
I hope you don't expect unbiased contributions here: Take OpenACS! ;)

What you want to do is (mostly) there with OpenACS: the upcoming 5.0 release has the features you are looking for. Needless to say some are in a fairly rough shape, and some of your requirements don't make sense yet to me. E.g. what is "workflow applications"?

There is one beautiful thing about free software: It is free! You can download the whole stuff, install it on a box, and configure it to your needs. The only investment needed is time.

Thus you can form your own (less biased) opinion based on your needs.