"Andy McKay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > hi, > > > > I'm kind of surprised that Active State has such a big promo on Zope.org's > > site considering they use IIS; and considering the blurb talks about how > > much they do for Open Source. > > We use IIS for many reasons, it's fast and we use some of products in > conjunction with it. To suggest that using IIS is somehow "wrong" confuses > me, Zope.org doesn't use ZServer. Strictly speaking, not true -- the host your browser connects to is first a load-balancer, then an Apache instance; Apache is proxying for ZServer. See http://www.zope.org/About for details. Otherwise, I'd agree with the rest of your points. > For me the flexibilty of using Zope any > way we see fit is its greatest strength. We made a decision to serve > "static" content using a simple fast server and dynamic content using Zope. > > Actually we have the main web site in Zope. Its the CMS for the main web > site and only accessible internally. This allows multiple users to access > and make changes, templating and so on. Since this content changes very > rarely we use wget hack to move the information to the main web site to be > served by IIS, since IIS can serve out many more pages per second that Zope > can (because it is doing some much less). This is a "right product for the > right job" decision. > > For the dynamic portions (mailing list arcive etc.) we use Zope and ZServer > quite happily on the front end. One day we may move to having the whole site > in Zope, who knows :). > > As mentioned we do a great deal for Open Source (ActivePerl, ActivePython, > PyXPCOM, PPM and so on) to name a just a bit. ActiveState is one of the very > few companies where we pay people to hack open source stuff all day. In the > same way Guido works for DC and spends time on Python, we have many talented > Python and Perl developers (David Ascher, Paul Prescod, Gurusamy Sarathy, > Jan Dubois) who in put a great deal of Open Source work. Tres. -- =============================================================== Tres Seaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digital Creations "Zope Dealers" http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
