Hi, anyone interested in packaging Zope!? Here's a quote from www.zope.org: <--------------- Introducing Zope What is Zope? Zope is an Open Source application server and portal toolkit used for building high-performance, dynamic Web sites. How does Zope fit into the marketplace? Zope competes in three segments of the application server market: 1.Commercial application servers where the competition includes products such as Cold Fusion, Silverstream, Netscape Application Server, and others. This is a crowded market focused on two areas: Java and relational databases. 2.Free development systems and Open Source software. This includes free products such as PHP, mod_perl. In fact the dominant product in all market segments is the one built in-house, which is often constructed with free tools. 3.Portals and content management systems. Examples of portals include Glyphica and Portera. Content management systems include Frontier (which we are often compared to) and Vignette (which we come across often in competitive consulting bids). Who is using Zope? The technology running Zope has been used by Digital Creations over the course of the last three years in projects for the federal government, over 80 regional newspapers, and the telecommunications industry. Specific examples are available on the Zope website. Zope's real strength lies in its active developer community, which currently stands at over 500 people. Who is it intended for? Zope is aimed at three different types of customers: 1.Content manager. These are people that know tools like HTML editors, Windows Explorer, and Word. They now want to migrate up to more powerful web functionality or participate in a more powerful system. 2.Developer. Programmers that know technologies like relational databases, object oriented programming, and serious web development can use Zope to create content that is managed by content managers. 3.Information architects. These are managers of business units that make the decisions about web architectures, how to deploy their business online, and how to reach out to their customers and other stakeholders. How is Zope different? Zope has a number of qualities that significantly differentiate it in the marketplace. These advantages support our philosophy of "Unleashing Potential". 1.Open Source. Zope is run on an Open Source philosophy. The software platform is free and customers have complete control over using it and modifying it. We strongly believe that application servers and portals are "bet the business", mission-critical decisions. Customers should be in control of their architecture and not be held hostage to technology vendors. 2.Portal toolkit built on application server. The current portal strategies are focused on "portal in a box", where you get to do what they let you do. Also, the portal software market isn't directed toward collaboration, rather on blasting internal corporate information. Zope adds portal toolkit functionality (news, search, directory, membership) to an already-differentiated application server. Moreover, these portal features are integrated in a way that leverages the coherence of the Zope architecture for unleashing potential. 3.Through the web management. Zope is completely managed through the web and uses the web object model as its design. This dramatically changes the rules, as participation in adding value can be extended to anyone, anywhere. Zope's integrated object database follows this philosophy, as it is organized like the folders in a filesystem and managed with a Windows Explorer-like interface. 4.Safely delegate control. Keeping up with the high velocity of business these days requires turning control over to others, but in a safe way. Zope's unique framework provides a safety net, including access control, undo, private versions, and more. Does Zope write the output to files to be delivered by a Web server? No it doesn't. As an application server, Zope serves up every request dynamically. Web users are connecting to real objects running in the Zope object system. What platforms does Zope run on? Digital Creations develops Zope on Linux/Intel and supports Zope on Linux/Intel, Solaris (SPARC and Intel), and Windows. Zope has been ported to Digital Unix, BSDI, HP/UX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, SGI/Irix, HP-UX, and many others. What databases does it support? The integrated object database by default uses the file system to manage its data. It can also be layered on top of other storage managers, such as bsddb or relational databases. Zope also allows content managers and programmers to easily integrate data managed in an external database. Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, ODBC, Postgres, Solid, and Adabas adapters have been developed. What Web servers does it support? The Zope object publishing system was designed to hide plumbing details, which makes it easy to add support for various servers. Apache, Netscape, IIS, and OpenMarket are all supported in Digital Creations' consulting services. In addition, the object publishing system includes its own high-performance Web and FTP server. This can be extended to cover other protocols such as POP3, IMAP and the like. What is Python? Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. It is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. It combines remarkable power with clear syntax and is available for every conceivable platform. For more information, check out the www.python.org site. Zope is written in Python with C extensions for critical performance improvements. However, the Zope Template system allows powerful applications to be created without any knowledge of Python. The use of Python is a distinct, competitive advantage for Zope over commercial offerings. It makes casual Zope product enhancement and development a snap, and allows for deep product development coherent, cohesive and productive. With Zope as a free, Open Source product, how does Digital Creations generate revenues? Through consulting and other services. Zope was the natural result of refining Digital Creations' business strategy after its first round investment. Additional details are available at the Digital Creations Web site. <------------- and here's the licence (should similar to the apache one): <---------- ZPL Zope Public License (ZPL) Version 1.0 ------------------------------------- Copyright (c) Digital Creations. All rights reserved. This license has been certified as Open Source(tm). Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions in source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. Digital Creations requests that attribution be given to Zope in any manner possible. Zope includes a "Powered by Zope" button that is installed by default. While it is not a license violation to remove this button, it is requested that the attribution remain. A significant investment has been put into Zope, and this effort will continue if the Zope community continues to grow. This is one way to assure that growth. 4. All advertising materials and documentation mentioning features derived from or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: "This product includes software developed by Digital Creations for use in the Z Object Publishing Environment (http://www.zope.org/)." In the event that the product being advertised includes an intact Zope distribution (with copyright and license included) then this clause is waived. 5. Names associated with Zope or Digital Creations must not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without prior written permission from Digital Creations. 6. Modified redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following acknowledgment: "This product includes software developed by Digital Creations for use in the Z Object Publishing Environment (http://www.zope.org/)." Intact (re-)distributions of any official Zope release do not require an external acknowledgement. 7. Modifications are encouraged but must be packaged separately as patches to official Zope releases. Distributions that do not clearly separate the patches from the original work must be clearly labeled as unofficial distributions. Modifications which do not carry the name Zope may be packaged in any form, as long as they conform to all of the clauses above. Disclaimer THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY DIGITAL CREATIONS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL DIGITAL CREATIONS OR ITS CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. This software consists of contributions made by Digital Creations and many individuals on behalf of Digital Creations. Specific attributions are listed in the accompanying credits file. <--------------------- Any takers? I'm willing to test the package ;-) - if no one is taking this package it's likely that I will do it myself in Sept. or later. Bye Christian -- Dipl.-Ing. Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany leutloff@sundancer.oche.de http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/ leutloff@debian.org Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.de.debian.org/
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