After Guido van Rossum asked for suggestions which Python based Web-Framework he should use, there were some negative Remarks on Zope calling it unpythonic and stuff again. Even though I do not like that "unpythonic" term at all for the same reasons as Chris McDonough I cannot resist to say that these people have not looked at Zope3 at all. Shame on you guys, Zope3 is a much different Beast than Zope2!

Some people said, they had enough of that Zope Kool-Aid and there was an Interesting Discussion about Zope vs. Django at another Blog which started as the usual Zope-Rant, which in my opinion was rather about Plone than Zope itself. Anyway, Holger Fröbe made a long but excellent Comment there why he jumped on the Zope3-Bandwagon in a similar situation - Read it! :)

I followed these discussions and would not have written about these discussions, but I found an interesting remark by Carlos de la Guardia about the which changed my mind. Especially his idea (and link about "The Koolaid Point") that there is many people hating Zope because Zope is so successfull are really good, methinks. I've had my bad days with Zope, too - but I am convinced that this is a great piece of software, especially when you need more than just a Small Website. So let's go out and spread the word!