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[Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>]

Richard Archer writes:
 > Seeing the limited grant money spent on hardware rather than
 > development would almost make me cry.

I agree.

 > I'm only a bystander here, but I'd have thought developing this
 > system in the most widely available development environment would
 > make most sense.
 > 
 > And it is apparent that since your chosen host doesn't run ZOPE
 > that ZOPE is not widely available and therefore not the most
 > appropriate system to develop this project in.

Not actually.  Our preferred host doesn't currently run Zope, although
they have in the past.  The fact that a given host doesn't currently
have Zope available is not an indicator of it's overall availability.

 > PHP/MySQL or PHP/PostgreSQL are almost ubiquitous.

I'm assuming that your preference for PHP is based somewhat on the
fact that you do website development in PHP?  

 > All these "edgy" platforms like ZOPE and even python to a certain
 > extent are great for geeks to experiment with but they're hardly
 > suitable for developing a mainstream package.

I disagree with your analysis that python is anything short of a
mainstream technology.  Ever here of a website called google?  What do
you think they use?... or does it work for them just because they are
geeks?  I can give lots more examples if you would like.

Zope is a bit more cutting edge but hardly a geeks only platform.

-- 
Chad Knepp
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