[Zope-CMF] Who's using CFM Live?

Lucas Hofman lucas.hofman@oslo.pgs.com
Tue, 22 May 2001 11:08:45 +0200


Allen.Vailliencourt@channelmaxinc.com wrote:
> 
> I just started playing with the CFM 1.0 module and am impressed with it so far. It's a great
> alternative to Interwoven or Documentum (and it's cost is unbeatable :) ).  My question to you folk
> is who is using Zope and the CFM stuff on a live site (besides the actualy Zope sites). Any
> businesses using this? I'm looking into using this for our Intranet right now as it's a beaast and
> is currently being redesigned. If all goes well I might port it to our external corporate websites

We are. You can not see it, it behind the firewall. I started
implementing the then called PTK spring 2000. We are now about to
release the 2001 version based on CMF1.0. Zope/PTK has shown to be a
stable and robust production environment.  

It is a very productive environment, but has a steep learning curve for
the non python people. Documentation is still a weak point, although
the Zope book is really good on the zope part. The CMF is complex, so
you will spend quite a few hours looking at source code to see how
things work.

Migration between PTK and CMF turned out to be a real problem due to the
fact that everything is in the ZODB. Very little database management
tools/scripts are available so you have to write your own.

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