“Ethan Fremen works for Digital Creations as the community
liason for Zope, an open source web application server. He
interfaces between Digital Creations and the Zope community, and is
the webmaster for Zope.org.”
“Linux.com: How does Zope compare to other web
application servers available for Linux?
Ethan Fremen: Well, we’re an integrated
environment, which has a lot of advantages if you work within the
environment. It’s strongly object-oriented, which means that it has
a better chance at longevity than almost anything else out there,
because if it’s HTML objects today and SOAP objects tomorrow, it’s
still the same underlying platform. I would think that Enhydra is
probably the closest thing in the open source space, but it is
unfortunately not built with an open language.”
“Linux.com: How does Digital Creations make
money from Zope?
Ethan Fremen: Digital Creations builds
industrial strength web applications. That includes, but is not
limited to, Web sites. According to Paul Everitt, our CEO, going
open source has tripled our buisness. Think about it: would you
rather use some proprietary web-building tool, and be forever
hostage to the company that made it, or throw your chips in with an
open source project, where you know there’ll be someone who can
maintain things no matter what happened?”