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Message: [QUOTE="=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gerhard_H=E4ring?=, post: 1721021"] ZOPE certainly has it's places for intranet as well as extranet applications. It's scope is more limited than that of J2EE or .NET though. It's basically a (web) application server. J2EE/.NET can be used for more than that. *Cough*. The words "enterprise" and MySQL don't go together for me. For an Open Source database that can be used as a preferred general-purpose RDBMS I'd suggest PostgreSQL. In any case ZOPE is pretty database-agnostic, there are database adapters (DA's) for all major RDBMS. PHP skills may be easily available, but I have my doubts wrt. to maintainability of PHP. The little I saw until know from PHP I didn't like at all. I have no idea about all this stuff, but I suppose integration works via either a Java API or a SOAP/XML-RPC/CORBA interface. Apart from the Java API, no such interface should be a problem to access via Python (or ZOPE). My job requires me to work with ASP.NET and ADO.NET currently and I find the technology quite "sexy". The WYSIWYG editor for ASP.NET that's integrated into Visual Studio is quite nifty. It makes component-based web programming a reality. The only downside is that realistically it ties you to the Windows platform and to Microsoft. The big advantage of Java's APIs is that you can choose among multiple implementations, including quite good Open Source ones. The problem with Python is that there is no *one* "solution" (gee how I hate these marketing words) that you can show to management types. You'll always have to choose among several totally different libraries for each task, like for example web programming. -- Gerhard [/QUOTE]

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