Zope 2.5.1 Released

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Zope 2.5.1 was released. The binaries come with Python 2.1.3. Zope nows comes out-of-the-box with PageTemplates, Sessions, VirtualHosting and the ZODB storage is based on the Standalone ZODB module maintained by Pythonlabs. Drop-in ZEO and you get a distributed object oriented database system."

Zope for workflow?

[t482]

I have been looking at systems to manage workflow for a customer. Proprietary solutions we've looked at include Lotus Domino(on Linux)/ Exchange 200x / and Lotus Workflow (runs on Linux).

The advantage of Lotus Workflow is it very high level and thus allows you to concentrate on improving the business processes. Unfortunately it is very expensive (10K server and $60 per client)

How does Zope compare? (I love python).

Anthony
http://xminc.com/anthony [xminc.com]

Re:Zope for workflow?

[dracvl]

If workflow is your interest, you should check out Zope's Content Management Framework [zope.org] - and in particular the Plone [plone.org] implementation based on this. Plone makes the whole thing more user friendly (basically, the CMF sucks in its standard version ;) and also incorporates DCWorkflow as part of the solution.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the people behind Plone, so I might be biased ;)

Re:Zope for workflow?

[jo42]

Sorry, can't resist:

Zope on a Rope!

Re:Zope for workflow?

[Anonymous Coward]

At IPC10, they were handing out ZOPE on a Rope. see this picture [zope.org]

Rock solid and highly recommended.

[cbr372]

We are running Zope 2.5.0, and it is rock solid. The performance is excellent and the utility is amazing. It allows a totally modular setup, content management is a breeze, and this is useful when there's no central administrator for all aspects of the site (Graphics, logic and content can all be managed seperately, totally securely, all through a web-based interface or via WebDAV or FTP).

The setup starts with an LVS server [linuxvirtualserver.org], connected to an OpenBSD firewall [openbsd.org], backended by three ZEO servers running on FreeBSD 4.4, one DB server (PostgreSQL 7.1.2) running on FreeBSD 4.4, and one central webserver running Apache 1.3.22 on Slackware 8.0, with OpenSSL 0.9.6 and Mod_ssl, with web proxying through the ZServer to the Apache box via virtual hosts. (Proxy Pass Reverse in Apache).

This combination of Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Apache, Postgres, Zope, and various other open source software packages, has been rock solid and a box has only ever gone down for hardware upgrades (RAM, HDD, etc) and software updates (kernel updates, etc).

Overall, I recommend Zope 100%, but be aware that a lot will depend on your total setup, particularly if you have high-demand sites that you want to implement.