[imc-cms] leapfrogging drupal and plone: zope 3 collaboration

[ryan]

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>    amounts of cash to employ all the top python coders.
>    For some industry quotes and success stories see:
>    http://www.python.org/about/quotes/
>    http://www.python.org/about/success/

I would urge you to check out the development page set up for the
CakePHP project - http://dev.bunke.indymedia.org/

Specifically, what is drafted there is to use CakePHP as the front-end
language and use ICE as a way to do all kinds of things (probably in
Python) like interact with the database, provide an object store,
cross-server caching to memory, etc.

I've seen the component-based architecture articles popping up here
and there recently. I'm not exactly sure how it differs -- if Zope
could be used to build an appropriate drop-in replacement for the
middleware that ICE talks to (I doubt it) but either way this is the
direction our proposal is heading. Personally, my worry from a really
uneducated viewpoint is that Zope's overhead makes it inappropriate
for Indymedia's requirements which I think include a light-weight
middleware that allows us to truly distribute our servers and website
hosting.
-ryan