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What is Zope?

  - Open Source Web Application Server

  - 100% object framework

  - Provides exceptional benefits for collaborative or decentralized applications

  - Written in Python w/ C extensions

What does Zope provide?

  - 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

What makes Zope unique?

  - 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

Who uses Zope?

  - Download stats from community

  - 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