I see you met Zope 2. There is still a lot of it under Plone.
Neither Rails nor Django appeared on the radar before Zope 3 and Zope 3 is much a nicer platform than 2 (they applied a lot of lessons learned when making it). Grok is even more interesting, as it brings the convention over configuration to Zope 3 (Zope Corp does a lot of government contracts where, I assume, XML configuration files were mandated by clueless PHBs)
Also, had Zope been more successful at that time, it would have captured a lot of space that's now owned by Sharepoint and EJB messes.
Neither Rails nor Django appeared on the radar before Zope 3 and Zope 3 is much a nicer platform than 2 (they applied a lot of lessons learned when making it). Grok is even more interesting, as it brings the convention over configuration to Zope 3 (Zope Corp does a lot of government contracts where, I assume, XML configuration files were mandated by clueless PHBs)
Also, had Zope been more successful at that time, it would have captured a lot of space that's now owned by Sharepoint and EJB messes.