[Typo3-marketing] Zope

[Sander Vogels ( Netcreators )]

Guys,

I have some questions that I really need to be answered -quick- for some
sales & marketing issues.
Since I'm not a programmer I ask it to you guys 'cause the subject was
mentioned in our discussions.
Daniel issued Zope as the mane competitior for Typo3 and everybody seemed to
agree so you must know something about it..
Well, there's a chance that Netcreators may pitch for the new internetsite
for our homecity Arnhem. They currently have an intranet running -with 5000
users- on an CMS called Coherence. This CMS is based on/generated from the
Zope CMF. Important for us in the pitch will be:

1.) can Typo3 interact smoothless with Zope in respect of things like
import/export data and files (or to say it simple, how's the connection
possiblities between the two systems)
2.) can the back-end interface of Typo3 be custumized in a way that it looks
like the backe0end these guys have created? So all editors that are
currently working with this Zope-based thing don't have to learn to work
with a completely different environment.
3.) what can we mention as strong aspects of Typo3 that beat Zope?

There's a site about Coherence (www.coherence.nl) but this is completely in
Dutch. Ben & I can distract parts off the answers straight from this site
but I'm still anxious to know if you guys have something usefull to say.
Please help me out with these issues, the answers can also be relevant for
marketing Typo3 as a whole in the future I presume.

Cheers,

Sander Vogels
Managing Director

E. sander at netcreators.nl
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