1.	In doing this work we had to make a lot of choices. What database to use? What scripting language? Which web server? We tried working in PHP, but found that its interface to databases isn't uniform, and it's relatively low-level compared to the server environment we're accustomed to on Windows/Mac. PHP is comparable to WebSiphon on the Mac and ASP and Cold Fusion on Windows. Thru this lens we could see clearly how much more Frontier is doing for us on Windows. We want to build on something comparable on Linux.
2.	That led us to Zope. More than anything else available on Unix, Zope is closest to the rich runtime environment of Frontier. And Zope is built on Python, the Unix scripting language that's closest in philosophy and design to our own scripting language, UserTalk.
3.	And Zope is open source, which made it easier to invest. After all, we own it just as much as anyone else does. So we asked the Zope people if they would include our code in the standard Zope distribution and they said yes. Excellent! This is more proof that collaboration is possible, not only across operating systems, but across economic systems.
4.	I like the way this is going. The net result is that Zope will soon speak XML-RPC, and that means that it will be easy to build distributed systems that leverage the advantages of all three operating systems, Mac OS, Windows NT and Linux. This will be historic when it's delivered.