Forum OpenACS Q&A: Competitive Analysis

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1: Competitive Analysis
Posted by Ivan Histand on 07/29/02 11:19 PM
Hi,

Has anyone done a competitive analysis of OpenACS vs other web app
frameworks?  I'm doing some research as to determine the best
standards-based platform to use for an intranet reporting system and
would be interested to see any previous work in this area from
OpenACS'ers.

I am primarily interested in the Core packages and APIs, we need very
few of the add on packages such as bboards, etc.

Thanks!

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2: Response to Competitive Analysis (response to 1)
Posted by Christian Hvid on 08/02/02 01:10 PM
<p>I am looking for something like this too. The little I have found is:</p>

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  <li><a href="http://www.zope.org/Members/tazzzzz/ACSandZope">http://www.zope.org/Members/tazzzzz/ACSandZope</a> which is an older comparison of Zope and OpenACS

  <li><a href="http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw02/papers/refereed/calvo/">http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw02/papers/refereed/calvo/</a> Rafael Calvo's overview of OpenACS evaluates OpenACS against "suite of criteria" proposed by Mohammed Fayad (who has written some books on OO-frameworks) - this would be really good had there been similar articles on other frameworks - but I have not found any.

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<p>I think it is an extremely important area for newcomers to OpenACS who obviously need to <i>justify</i> why they have chosen this framework over so many others but I would also imagine such documentation to be of value when it comes to deciding on architecture and design of new OpenACS developments.</p>

<p>If you find anything please let me know (post here) - even if you don't - let me know. I would really like to make such an analysis or participate in making it.</p>