ZOPE: A Solution for Web-enabling Corporations

"Those of you who love object oriented programming at all sides - frontend, middle tier and backend, those who enjoy programming, who love the power of doing anything with a language, who want the flexibility of building huge applications, then Zope is definitely for you." - Bobby Mathew CTO Stylus Systems Pvt. Ltd.

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.

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 is written and 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

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.

WebReview www.webreview.com/1999/03_05/developers/03_05_99_2.shtm The Insider's Guide to Zope This is a very helpful but short review that will help you get an overview of Zope. Here is a paragraph from the review.

"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."

The Stylus Team trains in the latest web development technique Zope conducted by Kiran Jonnalgadda.