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copied!<p>I answer without much experience on both, but I had the chance to manipulate both, so I can tell you my opinion on some of your questions.</p> <blockquote> <p>1)What is the "real" purpose of zodb as such? Meaning I know what it does, but tell me one great thing that zodb does and a framework like django(which doesn't have zodb) misses</p> </blockquote> <p>Load distribution via ZEO and search via ZCatalog. Django is very low level on this point of view. To achieve the same, you would have to reimplement a lot of wheels, triangular. Something I learned quite soon is: don't mess with low level database issues. You will screw them up. It's a can of worms, <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/Sheeanaandworm.JPG" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Dune sized</a>.</p> <p>So why choose django ORM ? You should also consider if <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_ain%27t_gonna_need_it" rel="nofollow noreferrer">YAGNI</a>. django is <strong>easy</strong> and self contained, documentation is premium, and when (if) your site will grow that much, you will do the switch to a better ORM (or to a pure OODB, in case of ZODB) later on.</p> <blockquote> <p>2)It is said one of the zope's killer feature is the TTW(Through the Web or Developing using ZMI) philosophy. But I(and any developer) prefers File-System based development(using Version control, using Eclipse, using any favorite tool outside Zope). Then where is this TTW actually used?</p> </blockquote> <p>I cannot answer properly to this question, but I would not say that it's fundamentally bad to develop with such approach. Of course it's a change of mindset, and I tend to prefer filesystem based development as well.</p> <blockquote> <p>4)Is it really a good move to work on Zope, from Django ?</p> </blockquote> <p>Zope 3 is very modular, so you are free to use many of its components from django. I would advise against it though. You can, of course, but what I found most problematic is the lack of help. There are not many people using zope components and django at the same time. Sooner or later, you will have a problem and google won't help. At that point, you will realize that if your life was a videogame, you are definitely playing it at level difficult (maybe extreme, if you will have to put your nose into the zope code).</p>

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