[Zope] Salespitches for zope

Toens Bueker toens.bueker@gmx.net
Mon, 22 Oct 2001 19:54:14 +0200


Heimo Laukkanen <huima@fountainpark.org> wrote:

> How many of you have had to do sales pitches for Zope as a platform to
> client or clients who have been reading magazines and understand that
> Microsoft .Net,

Always the same question (to the customer): what does .net mean to _you_? Is it
webservices? Is it soap? Is it the development stuff? As most of it refers to
public standards, the implementation is unimportant - as long as it sticks to
the standard.

> Lotus Notes,

You mean "websphere notes"?

> Java XXXX or Macromedia Coldfusion are terms that they should be hearing,
> since journalist have been writing about those products?
>
> Basic points - also from zope book:
>
> - Scalability
> [etc]

Obviously there have been other people working on this already:

http://www.zope.org/Members/Kemalus/make_zope_decision

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