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Zope 3 Alpha 1 Released
nosse_elendili writes "These are exciting times for those of us who use Zope, because the long anticipated Zope 3 Alpha 1 has been released! For those who don't know, Zope is a powerful but somewhat obscure free, open-source, cross-platform web application server built around Python. Zope 3 is a complete rewrite and rethinking of the Zope platform so it looks and operates quite differently than previous releases. However, if you have never played with Zope before you should probably just read about Zope 3 and stick to the stable version with the Plone content management system installed. This is only an alpha release after all and Zope3 looks and acts alot like Zope2 + Plone."
I think the point that you are missing is that Zope is a development environment, not an out of the box BBS or portal.
Zope is a tool to create very powerful web based applications. I have developed several applications that do not fit into the a PostNuke type system. A few of them include a tracking system for help calls for our help desk, a tool for our software engineers to operate at SEI level 4 (we won't get into that here), and a system for my assistant sysadmins (FAQ's, server information, How-TO's etc..).
As far as all the Zope sites being hard to navigate, I'm sure that is because a programmer created the site and not a web designer. (I don't want the frills, just the info)