ZOPE: A Solution for Web-enabling Corporations

Stylus Systems is considering Zope development. This new initiative is being driven by our CTO Bobby Mathew. Here is what he has to say about Zope.

Bobby is no dope. He comes to Stylus with 11 years of programming and project management experience and a very innovative attitude. He is not only a "super techie" but also an all round guy who can communicate in the language of the listener.

Bobby has identified Zope as one technology that can add greatly to our customers solutions. This open source product can make our development rapid and very cost efficient. Our team is researching how we can use this technology to provide cost effective solutions for our customers.

Benefits of Zope

• Zope is an open-source software product. There is no charge for the software license fee.
  
  
• It takes advantage of object oriented programming
  
  
• Zope provides good programming productivity.
  
  
• Third party plugs-in will soon be available that will allow for Rapid Application Development and integration.
  
  
• The open source community should support and improve the available product and support options.
  
  
• Zope should be an ideal cost effective solution for medium size companies who need to interface legacy systems, web enable customer systems, create e-procurement systems, web enable supply chain management, create knowledge management systems and create enterprise Intranets (portals).

Zope Links

Digital Creation www.digicool.com These are the people who created Zope. Here is a quote from their website. "Digital Creations, developers of Zope(TM), the leading Open Source Web application server announces the release of its new Content Management Framework (CMF). CMF makes it easy to rapidly build content management systems so even non-technical users can maintain systems, safely speeding content creation and publication."

Zope Newbies www.zopenewbies.net This site is basically a discussion forum.

Zopezen www.zopezen.org This is a Zope discussion forum

Zopegeeks www.zopegeeks.org This site is mostly a discussion forum. This is a recent posting by the founder "Hey, sorry folks for lack of updates! I have been working my arse off the past week or so and haven't had time to work on the site. Whats more, I am off on holiday for 2 weeks to Scotland as of this weekend, and I am not sure of my Internet connectivity situation so there may be very few updates between now and then!"

Zope Org www.zope.org Here is a quote from their website: "Zope is the leading Open Source web application server. Zope enables teams to collaborate in the creation and management of dynamic web-based business applications such as intranets and portals. Zope makes it easy to build features such as site search, news, personalization, and e-commerce into your web applications."

Zope Labs www.zopelabs.com "The general goal is to provide a "learn by example" environment, and cut-and-paste type code sharing. I sincerely hope you find this site useful and hope you find the time to recommend it to friends and colleagues."

Zope Book http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/ This is a free online book to help you learn to use Zope.

"Zope is an Open Source Web application platform for creating dynamic Web sites and Web applications. It has proven technological foundations and a vital community of supporters. Zope is lightweight and portable across operating systems, Web servers, and databases. It delivers high-performance with a small footprint. The platform's Web object system allows applications to be built quickly and easily with unparalleled flexibility and manageability. The object database provides transparent persistence, transactions, undo, and versioning, while accommodating a variety of storage backends. Zope can be managed through the Web with an HTML GUI that's modeled on the Windows Explorer file manager."

Please feel free to contact bobby@stylusinc.com. Perhaps you have an idea how to collaborate with Stylus or perhaps you are interested in contracting us to do your Zope development.