Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Future directions for OpenACS

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Posted by Mike Linksvayer on
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.