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What is Zope?

HTTP, FTP, WebDAV? server
Programmers, Content Managers, Administrators can use familiar tools
Transactional Object Database supports versioning, undo
Web-based Management Interface with familiar file browsing interface and search capabilities
In conjunction with ZEO, Zope becomes a distributed object architecture for web clustering
Significant operational efficiencies in creating, approving and deploying new content
Adapters for RDBMS

Rapid Development
Zope-based solutions delivered in half the time of comparable systems
- Python well-suited to rapid development
- Zope takes advantage of a component architecture to maximize reuse
All tiers as managed content
Data, Presentation, and Business Logic can all be managed through the same interface - not necessary to tie together disparate components from file system, RDBMS
Flexibility
Zope can accomodate the needs of businesses from one-person web shops to fortune 500 companies
- Security system makes delegated management easy to implement
- Scripting and programming can be done in Python, Perl, and DTML, Zope's html-based templating language
- ZClasses? allow users with little or no programming experience to build rich objects for web publishing
Free, Open Source
Zope has a highly active developer, administrator, and user community
- Businesses which use Zope are not bound to a vendor for support, training, and upgrades
- Zope benefits from community-contributed software components
- Zope security benefits from having a large "QA team" in the open source community

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DC has had 12 clients in the Fortune 1000; it is estimated that 50% of Fortune 1000 uses Zope for their business.
Numerous government agencies: US Navy, HST