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[John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

> Still trying to workout what the difference between
> application server (zope) and a content managment system (plone? or 
> others) is.

Plone and CMF (Content Mgmt Framwork) and Silva and so on (zope-based 
CMFs/CMSs) are built using zope - zope is their app server.
In short, they are very complex and sophisticated zope products.

> Even using zope there are many things we will need to write
> (which others have done before). We will basically need to write our own 
> content managment system.

Yeah, a DB is always some sort of CMS.
CMF or others might provide some tools we can use fairly directly.
I don't know them well enough to be sure.
Looked into Plone back at 1.1 but it was not mature enough to suit me. 
Haven't had time to look at 2.x yet.

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