From:	 Erik Clausen <eclausen@schwartz-pr.com>
To:	 lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Digital Creations renamed Zope Corporation, Releases Zope 2.4
Date:	 Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:34:24 -0400


Digital Creations renamed 'Zope Corporation'; Zope 2.4 released

Fredericksburg, Va.July 23, 2001--Zope Corporation, the premier open source 
content management company, announces its name change in recognition of the 
broad acceptance of its Zope platform and services. Zope Corporation also 
announces the availability of Zope 2.4, which provides even richer features 
to enable organizations to deploy and manage complex content management 
applications. These new features continue to improve the time-to-market 
advantage for Fortune 1000 companies, corporate intranets, community Web 
sites and content publishers.

"The name change from Digital Creations to Zope Corporation is a natural 
move as our product offerings and services business continue to evolve in 
the content management space," said Brian Methvin, President and CEO of 
Zope Corporation. "Zope has a tremendous following in the open source 
community as well as in many large companies whose solutions have been 
deployed with the Zope platform. This name change is intended to ensure 
that Zope and the company that develops Zope are more closely associated 
with one another in the marketplace."

The Zope family of solutions makes it easy to rapidly build high 
performance, scalable, secure, content management systems so even 
non-technical users can maintain them. This ease-of-use combined with its 
open source roots make the Zope family of content creation, distribution 
and publication solutions extremely flexible and customizable. Zope offers 
premier for-fee products and services for complex, large-scale 
applications. In addition, there are over 20,000 developers contributing to 
Zope who can assist on smaller scale projects.
Zope 2.4 provides enhancements that help businesses quickly build powerful 
custom content management systems. The new features include:

Support for Python 2.1 Programming Language
Zope 2.4 is compatible with Python 2.1 and all of the features and 
functionality that come along with the new version of this renowned open 
source scripting language. Python enables developers to customize and build 
content management solutions for a wide variety of applications.

WebDAV
Distributed authoring and versioning allow content creators to interact 
with Zope through a file-based system for ease-of-use, which in turn 
enables seamless Web content development and updates from popular desktop 
programs.

Developer Productivity
Zope 2.4 empowers developers to quickly write new components and have them 
automatically update the system, which promotes developer productivity as 
they focus on the components they are writing rather than updating the system.

Consulting Services, Pricing, Availability
Zope 2.4 is open source and available at www.zope.com. Zope Corporation 
also provides a full range of solutions for corporations requiring 
implementation assistance and/or specialized applications.

About Zope Corporation
Zope Corporation is the creator of a family of open source and for-fee 
content management solutions that help companies deliver and manage 
information. Zope also delivers a wide range of consulting and support 
services to a broad array of customers including Fortune 1000, 
media/telecom and government. The company's flagship platform, also called 
Zope, is built using Python, a high-level, easy-to-use, open source 
language enabling the quick development and deployment of comprehensive, 
flexible solutions. Zope is used by customers in over 62 countries, and 
supported by a global developer community. Zope Corporation is 
headquartered in Fredericksburg, VA, and its PythonLabs division is located 
in Tyson's Corner, VA. Opticality Ventures I, LP, J.H. Whitney IV, LP and 
The Intel 64 Fund, are investors in the company. For more information, 
please visit www.zope.com.

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Erik Clausen, Senior Account Executive
Schwartz Communications, Inc.
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