People are talking about Zope. Here's what
some Zope users and developers have to say
about their experiences.
"Most other technologies tend to promote 'one size fits all'
solutions. They are often easy to install, but burdensome to maintain.
Nor do they scale well, as many web developers have painfully
discovered... Zope components encourages a 'best fit' approach to applying
tested, open-sourced components."
Jeff Bauer, Lead Developer
Rubicon, Inc. (A developer of software applications for the health care industry)
"Because of Zope's incredibly easy development model and low
learning curve, our project development is 200% ahead of schedule.
If we were using any other tool set currently available for our
environment, there is no way we would be as close to roll-out
as we are!"
David Wagle, Senior Systems Programmer
HealthPartners
"Zope components allow me to create high performance web applications. It's hard to
believe that the same query that was taking a Perl CGI 12 seconds now takes
my Zope application .3 seconds. And once the query is cached, it takes
0.0091 seconds from the time the URI target method is entered to the time
it hits the return statement!
"ZPublisher and ZopeHTTPServer have generated enough interest around here from
this one application that two hard-core Perl programmers have asked me to
hold lunch-hour Python-Zope classes for them!"
Ray Price, Senior Engineer
CollegeNet
"We decided to use Zope and ZSQL Methods to provide web interfaces to
databases that contain information about large scientific datasets -
such as
starting date, number of data points, and quality metrics for the
data. Starting with a working 'MySQL' database, using the
pre-configured Apache that ships with Zope, we got a simple query
working in well under 2 hours. Very impressive product!"
Joe VanAndel
National Center for Atmospheric Research
"I'm a Design Manager at Easics. We design silicon hardware: digital
ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) and FPGAs (field
programmable gate arrays). We use Zope components to put our design productivity
tools on the web.
"I am very impressed with Python and Zope and I am
convinced they are the tools we need.
A short time after we introduced them, they have become
already heavily used in our company."
Jan Decaluwe, Design Manager
Easics
"At the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, Australia I used Zope components in
several projects. One that was particularly successful was a web
interface to a database of satellite photo meta-data. I was able to very
rapidly implement a sophisticated front end to an Oracle database. I
wrote the whole interface in about a week. I'd estimate that Zope cut at
least a week off the development time.
"Since then I've also written a bunch of smaller projects using Zope components -
too many to remember. They've generally been completed so quickly that
no one's had time to asked me what technology I was planning to use."
Richard Jones, Web Developer
Commonwealth Bureau of Meterology, Australia
"We're betting our company on Python and Zope, that's how
good we feel about the technology"
Ian Prince, Developer
inextenso (Internet and environment system integrators, Switzerland)
"I am the lead intranet developer for Bell Atlantic Mobile,
the United State's second largest wireless
communications company. We use Zope and its components
to provide access to HR data
on our intranet and to facilitate other applications.
Zope allows for better organization of code,
and allows us to focus on coding first. With Zope, apps
are developed and debugged quicker and easier,
and they run faster than straight CGI. Python and Zope
are intelligently designed and solidly built."
Bill Scherer, Lead Intranet Developer
Bell Atlantic Mobile
"We had a need to create an easily extensible computer quoting system for
use on our corporate intranet. It had to be easy to update and easy for
non-technical users to access. Zope appeared to be the perfect tool to
provide this. We now have an extremely fast web-based quoting system
that everyone can use very easily. It works so well that we are going to
slightly modify it to allow price quoting for customers on our public website."
Timothy Grant, VP Technology
Avalon Technology Group, Inc.
"At Indigo Networks we use Zope and Oracle as our means of data collection
and data management. Zope has provided us with a middleware solution that is
second to none and gives us the flexibility to change regardless of platform
and database. The solution is elegant and provides a level of remote
management unparalleled in the application server market. For any price on
any platform there is no more flexible solution than Zope."
Theodore E. Patrick, CIO
Indigo Networks
"When we decided to create an alumni website for our old department, we had a
number of requirements that had to be met.
First, the users of the site are distributed globally in different time
zones, so we needed to ensure that the site was always available, even while
it was being modified. Zope's session handling made this possible ...
changing the site in the evening in one location did not mean disrupting
access to a user accessing the site in the morning from another location.
Secondly, the maintainers of the site are also in separate geographic
locations, remote from the server, so the web-based management interface
helped overcome this potential hurdle.
Last but not least, we wanted users to be able to leave contact and personal
information, while at the same time not being able to alter the site. Users
who hadn't registered also needed to be given information on how they could
receive a password. Zope's flexible permissions facility made implementing
this a straightworward task."
Andy Smith
Global Equity Derivatives Alumni Association
As a programmer, I have found ZPublisher and ZTemplates to be
indispensable tools for creating dynamic, extensible web applications.
Object publishing with acquisition and templates is just the right way to
do this. I couldn't imagine going back to the bleak world of perl driven
CGI.
One of the many great benefits is the ability to truly separate the
backend code from the interface. This has made it possible to divide the
work up in a way that just wasn't possible with traditional methods. Using
these tools have not only allowed us to develop powerful applications
quickly, but also they are more reliable and visually appealing."
John Eikenberry, Senior Applications Developer
Kavi, Corp
I am an intranet developer for my corporation and I have been looking
for a product like Zope to aid in my development. I tried messing
with products like FrontPage and other Microsoftish products, but they
pale in comparison to your product. I would like to thank you for all
your hard work and wish you continued success.
Dan Zweifel
Zope technology such as DocumentTemplate has greatly helped in both getting product to market
fast and maintaining the product afterwards, since the developers no
longer have to muck with HTML and the content producers don't have to
muck with code. Thus the developers don't spend all their time managing minor
HTML changes, they can spend their time focusing on code.
Drew Csillag, Senior Engineer
StarMedia Network
So far I've installed Zope on one of my home computers and I'm pouring over
the documentation, and trying out various things. It's wonderful. You guys
should be intensely proud.
From what I've seen so far today, "The best damn app server" is not an
understatement. I've tried things like Lotus Notes/Domino, and they suck. I
have not tried megabuck products like Dynamo, but I don't care: They are
incredibly expensive, they're closed systems, they are developed in
corporate, zombie cultures, and they're a dime a dozen.
What really gets me is that Zope is totally web-managed. It means I
can build a web site and tell some guy he manages a subset of it.
Alexander Staubo
"Hiway Technologies' customer service intranet, IDS, was developed with
Principia and implemented as a Bobo application. IDS is a web-based issue
tracking system which is used throughout Hiway not only for responding to
requests from customers, but also to track internal projects and requests.
Over 30 teams and departments make use of IDS, including sales, service,
support, system administration, software development, and engineering.
During initial development, the project team found Principia to be an ideal
application prototyping tool for developing web-based applications."
Phillip Eby
Hiway Technologies
Zope is incredible! Thank you! If you were to
take all the power of Lotus Notes, shrink the
footprint by a factor of 20, wrap it up in a real
web-based front-end, and give it away, that might
be Zope in a nutshell. Amazing.
Jamieson Becker, Senior Network Engineer
Symetix Corporation
Zope is what Cold Fusion wants to be.
Stephan Richter, Software Designer and Engineer
iXL
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