Greetings! ZDnet UK's IT Week publication has a story available online comparing Midgard and Zope to commercial application servers like Vignette StoryServer. "The demand for content management is what lies behind Midgard � an application server that developers Jukka Zitting and Henri Bergius first wrote two years ago to manage a Swedish online magazine." "Now serviced by 20 open source developers, Midgard is pitching itself at the Web publishing market dominated by Vignette's StoryServer 4. Like StoryServer, it separates content from design, allowing marketing to concentrate on producing content, designers on design and management on administration. But more significantly, Midgard offers the advanced personalisation services that are so critical to building a picture of each user's interests and to homing in on those interests with customised content." ... "But both Zope and Midgard rely on easily learned and well-known scripting languages for even the most technical aspects of their configuration. That puts them just a short climb up the learning curve for those developers who built today's Web applications using Perl CGI scripts." The article is based mostly on email interviews with Midgard and Zope developers. While there seems to be confusion on some facts (like Midgard's country of origin), the overall story is quite positive. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/analysis/2000/02/internet/ /Bergie -- -- Henri Bergius -- +358 40 525 1334 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.iki.fi/Henri.Bergius -- This is The Midgard Project's mailing list. For more information, please visit the project's web site at http://www.midgard-project.org To unsubscribe the list, send an empty email message to address [EMAIL PROTECTED]
