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Zope chicken or Plone (gold) egg?

19-Oct-2005

Tags: Web Content Management, Open Source,

Which comes first in a an open-source ecosystem: the platform or the application? A practical answer is, "both." And so the Plone community is spearheading a funding initiative called "GoldEgg" to better coordinate various Zope and Plone architectural efforts. Such coordination is necessary given changes across the Zope stack, including the long-awaited advent of Zope 3, which is designed to overhaul the underlying application server and push some or most of the Content Management Framework (CMF) lower in the stack. While Zope 3 emerges, some developers have begun work on "Zope 5" to incorporate some Zope 3 features into Zope 2.X. In short, the foundations under which Plone is built are, well, shifting. But wait, Plone has become an important driver -- perhaps the most important driver -- of Zope adoption. So the Plone community can reasonably ask whether the product tail should wag the appserver dog. They are putting money into it, which seems like a very good idea. I'll keep watching...

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