Zope Versus Oracle's WebDB - how do they compare?

[Paul Everitt]

Ian Clarke wrote:
> Hi, sorry if this isn't an appropriate forum for Zope related stuff, but
> the Zope mailing lists seem to be down.

I think the list was up, but the web interface was missing its Apache
connection.

> Does anyone have experience using both Zope and Oracle's WebDB, and if
> so - how did they compare (ignoring the obvious price difference).
> Particularly, I am interested in performance (connecting to an Oracle
> Database - I assume Zope would do this via ODBC).  I am also interested
> in how well (if at all) they integrate with Java applets.

Haven't used WebDB, so I'll just clear up one inaccuracy in the above. 
Zope uses DCOracle, a native database connection library.  Not only is
this good for performance, but you get a number of feature benefits.

--Paul