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Zope

Describe Zope here....

Q: When did you start and what was your motivation?
A: Zope was originally created by a company called Digital Creations (recently renamed Zope Corporation)and about 3 years ago released as Open Source Software.

Q: How many people are involved and how is the project organised?
A: Hard to tell but its safe to say that several thousand people use Zope and several hundred developers develop native applications called Zope Products. Zope.org currently counts 437 Zope Products.

Q: What is your target audience or market?
A: From Non-profit .org to traditional Enterprise class customers.

Q: Which functions and tools are supported
A:

   Y  N
 authoring  X  
 metadata tagging  X  
 editing  X  
 collaboration  X  
 workflow  X  
 security  X  
 versioning  X  
 scheduling  X  
 templating  X  
 syndication  X  
 personalisation  X  

Q: Which open source license is applied?
A: Zope Public Licensed (similar to BSD license)

Q: Which development environment or programming languages are used?
A: Python, DTML, SQL, Perl, C

Q: Do you offer paid support?
A: Yes. 75 Zope Solution Providers around the world offer Zope Support.

Q: What are your long term goals and strategies?
A: Improve colloboration between the different Zope nodes in the network including the EuroZope foundation. Focus on easy-to-use and exciting new applications which motivate people to install Zope and find out for themselves why this Web Application Server and Content Management System has such a loyal and motivated following.


Version 4 by gate3.beehive.de at October 11, 2001