[Zope] Is Zope the Tool for This Job?

[nitin@borwankar.com]

I have built a similar app ( secure intranet + extranet ) with Zope and 
MySQL, but your hit rates are likely to be much higher than what I see.
So Sybase or Oracle may be a better choice for you - if that is 
prohibitive from a cost viewpoint try Postgres or MySQL with one of the 
transactional storages(innoDB ...) although I have not used either and 
have no real world data on transactional storages in MySQL.

Zope will definitely make the app development part of the job much 
faster and simpler. - not sure about the "ability to support multiple 
languages" part - I do know that more recent versions of Python have 
been Unicode aware.

Nitin Borwankar

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Nitin Borwankar
nitin@borwankar.com


beno wrote:

> Hi;
> A recently retired programmer has taken me under his wing and we're 
> bidding a government contract together. His background is low-level 
> languages and databases whereas I'll be doing the high-level stuff and 
> the Internet applications. The job involves building an intranet that 
> must be secure and an extranet: both of which access common records 
> through a database (probably MySQL). This is for the Department of 
> Motor Vehicles (DMV). My partner was running out of town when he 
> grabbed me to tell me about this, so I only jotted down what was 
> essential for my involvement. It includes:
>
> * Ability to pay for any traffic violation online
> * Fee-based title record search
> * Ability to view/print records of past transactions
> * Ability to print official receipts online
> * Provide online registration approval and payment
> * Ability to change profile information
> * Ability to request personal DMV driving record
> * Ability to support multiple languages
> * Make online appointment schedules
> * Renew driver's license online
> * Capable of efficiently handling millions of records
>
> It also includes the ability for law enforcement officials to access 
> records, communicate the same to the court via VPN, etc.
> My question is, is Zope the appropriate vehicle (forgive pun) for such 
> a project?
> TIA,
> beno
>
>
>
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