[Grok-dev] Re: Benefits of Grok -- please contribute

[Martin Aspeli]

Martijn Faassen wrote:

> Some managers will lean very strongly towards vendor backing, maturity, 
> support, etc. So strongly we're bound to lose them to, say, Java, no 
> matter what we say. I think we shouldn't target that mindset as it's a 
> battle we can't win.

Exactly. The only way to win that one is by fixing Jython. :)

> I don't consider Zope technologies to be competing with Grok, as the 
> synergy effects are much bigger than the competitive effects. A win for 
> Grok is a win for Zope and vice versa.
> 
> For people within the zope community we should help people make the 
> choice between a range of frameworks:
> 
> * classic Zope 2
> 
> * Zope 2 + CMF
> 
> * Plone + archetypes
> 
> * Zope 3
> 
> * Zope 3 + Grok


And Plone + Zope 3[1]. :)

Martin

[1] 
http://tomster.org/blog/archive/2007/05/14/developing-with-plone-3-rocks-hard