From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 31 8:42:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DF7037B422 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:42:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA15423; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:40:06 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA7caO6D; Thu Aug 31 08:39:53 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA01995; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:41:51 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200008311541.IAA01995@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: OSS, Sun, GPL, random ramblings To: grasshacker@linkfast.net (GH) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:41:50 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org (j mckitrick), chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000830000414.A56358@linkfast.net> from "GH" at Aug 30, 2000 12:04:15 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Crossing that barrier, we have documentation. One of the most > > intriguing, yet piss-poorly documented OSS projects is ZOPE. I > > would really have liked to use it for a project, but of course > > I had to go with PHP instead; much less interesting, much higher > > overhead (it's going to cost me ~$36,000 in extra hardware), but > > > Why would PHP rather than ZOPE cost ~$36,000 in *extra* hardware? > That sounds like a lot of equipment even just for performance(?), > storage(?) differences... It will cost me another machine, since I will have to use network seperation to establish an artificial protection perimeter so that a compromise of my interface services doesn't compromise any other security. If I had the ZOPE security model available, which is a capabilities based model, I would not have to worry about a UI-based compromise. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message