Regarding the "rise and fall of Zope",
a
comment I made on slashdot a few days ago and some responses to it
may be relevant. My comment:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/python/2001/02/22/pythonnews.html says
John Udell once described Digital Creations' Zope as
Python's killer app, the application that was going to have everyone
scrambling to learn Python. It hasn't proved to be much of a killer
though. Web designers looking for solutions to their documentation
management problems routinely dismiss it as overkill, developers as
underkill, or too hobbling.
I haven't taken much more than a cursory look at Zope (several times
over the last couple years), though that's about the impression I got:
too much complication for too little gain.
There are already numberous alternative offerings for Python. I'd
target
Ruby
instead.
