[ale] need your input on a project...

[Jeff Hubbs]

Well, with Zope, you can get that *and* paid support.  It goes without
saying that you can also find and fix your own bugs; try THAT with
WebSphere.

- Jeff

On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 15:09, John Wells wrote:
> Andy,
> 
> Doesn't have to be good support....I'd rather have active support, like 
> an active mailing list or #irc or something along those lines.
> 
> Thanks!
> John
> 
> Zyman, Andy said:
> > I was about to say Web Sphere... but you need free..  Don't think that
> > it is possible to get free + good support product nowadays... Hope I'm
> > wrong..
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: John Wells [mailto:jb at sourceillustrated.com]
> >> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 3:02 PM
> >> To: ale at ale.org
> >> Subject: [ale] need your input on a project...
> >>
> >>
> >> Guys,
> >>
> >> Just landed a rather large project involving converting a
> >> VB/Access/Sql
> >> Server app to an open source app.
> >>
> >> I'm most likely going the web approach because it makes very
> >> good sense in
> >> this case.
> >>
> >> However, this is where I'm a bit indecisive.  I've used PHP
> >> quite a bit in
> >> the past, and while it's very nice for smaller projects, I
> >> think it tends
> >> to get messy as the project grows.  This particular app will
> >> have over 70
> >> screens and a lot of background processing, so I'm not
> >> convinced PHP is
> >> the way to go.  I also want to go OO, and although PHP has limited OO
> >> capabilities, it begins to feel a little Perl-y after a while
> >> (<flamebait>granted, PHP's OO syntax is much cleaner than
> >> Perl's</flamebait>).
> >>
> >> My next thought was: Gee...wish Python web programming was
> >> really *There*.
> >>  I looked at web programming in python briefly in the past,
> >> and it seems
> >> as if there was either A. cgi scripting,  or B. a number of server
> >> pages-like projects, but cgi is not the way I'd like to go for
> >> efficiency's sake, and the server page projects looked to be a little
> >> beta-ish and not what I need for a project of this magnitude.  Then
> >> there's Zope, which seems mature, but folks have mentioned
> >> problems with
> >> threading and the like.
> >>
> >> So, finally, my last option is Java/Jsp/Servlets.  I have a lot of
> >> experience in this area, so coding wouldn't be a problem.
> >> However, iirc
> >> Tomcat is not really intended for production, so I'm not sure
> >> what sort of
> >> servlet/jsp containers are available (and mature) as open source.
> >>
> >> Ultimately, I need something clean and fast, with a fairly
> >> good support
> >> community.
> >>
> >> Any thoughts?
> >>
> >> Thanks for your input.  It will be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >>
> >>
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