[Zope] Re: JBoss vs Zope (was "Tomcat vs Zope")

[Oliver Bleutgen]

fsd fds wrote:

>  --- seb bacon <seb@jamkit.com> wrote: >
> 
>>For a more meaningful comparison, you could compare
>>zope to J2EE, which
>>provides for concepts of object-relational mapping,
>>persistence, etc. 
>>The open source J2EE server is jboss.
>>
> 
> You're right.
> 
> I'm checking out www.jboss.org
> They have claims like 
> "JBOSS #1 AMONG OPEN SOURCE APPLICATION SERVERS"
> 
> "4000 DOWNLOADS PER DAY, JBOSS SETS NEW RECORD"
> (anyone knows about zope download statistics? is ZC
> reading this?)
> 
> seems pretty nice. Damn, now I have to spend the
> whole day installing stuff and reading docs ;-)
> 

You can look at the statistics of zope.org at
http://ns1.zope.org:82/

There you'll find some data for instance under
"top urls by kbytes":



8912 /Products/Zope/2.4.3/Zope-2.4.3-win32-x86.exe
3228 /Products/Zope/2.4.3/Zope-2.4.3-linux2-x86.tgz
976  /Products/Zope/2.4.1/Zope-2.4.1-linux2-x86.tgz
983  /Products/Zope/2.5.0b3/Zope-2.5.0b3-win32-x86.exe
795  /Products/Zope/2.4.1/Zope-2.4.1-win32-x86.exe
753  /Products/Zope/2.5.0b4/Zope-2.5.0b4-win32-x86.exe
1213 /Products/Zope/2.4.3/Zope-2.4.3-src.tgz
543 /Products/Zope/2.5.0b3/Zope-2.5.0b3-linux2-x86.tgz

makes 17403 downloads in 16 days =~ 1100 downloads per day for a time 
which includes a quite inactive period (beginning of the year). And 
there are more versions of zope downloadable than this statistic tells us.

Nonetheless, I heard that jboss is quite a competitive product in the 
J2EE scene, regardless of it's price.

cheers,
oliver