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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What are the prospects for running Zope on
IronPython?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Having Zope run on .NET could open up some quite
interesting possibilities, esp. for Plone, the popular content management system
(CMS) for Zope. I usually work with .NET, but for some CMS stuff I did I chose
Plone. I liked that a lot better than the current most popular open
source .NET CMS, DotNetNuke, which didn't give me that pleasant open
source feeling that Plone gives and seemed a lot more clumsy in many
respects.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Zope.NET could be a killer app if it
could be tightly integrated with ASP.NET and the rest of the .NET
infrastructure. Right now I can't really imagine all the possibilities you would
get, but just to have a nice <FONT face=Arial size=2>object database and a good
CMS on top of that would make .NET a much more interesting
choice than all those PHP and Java alternatives for web
publishing. C</FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face=Arial
size=2>an it be done?!</FONT></DIV></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hans-Christian</FONT></DIV>
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