Welcome to Zope!

What is Zope?

Zope is an open source web application platform for building web applications, such as content management systems, intranets, portals, and custom applications. Zope provides a rich set of reusable components that can be used as building blocks to develop applications.

Key Features of Zope
Functionality out-of-the-box Zope provides you with a bunch of crucial functions to build your custom web applications including a HTTP-, FTP-, WebDAV and XML-RPC-server, tools for authentication, session management, internationalization, localization, a powerful templating language, automatic form generation and validation and a configurable workflow engine.	Experience Development on the platform that was to become Zope go back to the year 1996. Zope's open source success story started in 1998, when it was released as open source software. We haven't stopped developing Zope since, so the platform represents a very deep experience with web application technology.
Standards	Community Zope is used and developed by a vibrant community of proficient individuals and many small and medium enterprises all over the world. You're welcome to join us!

A mature platform

Development on the platform that was to become Zope started in 1996. Zope's open source success story started in 1998, when it was released as open source software. We haven't stopped developing Zope since, so the platform represents a very deep experience with web
application technology.

Zope is mature technology, and so is its community of users, developers, organizations and companies that surrounds it. Collectively, we have a very deep experience with web technology. We are professionals that know what is involved in building web applications.

Today, Zope is in use by thousands of companies and organizations, large and small, supported by a large community of individual developers and companies.

Who uses Zope?

Zope users include Viacom, Boston.com, SGI, AARP, Bell Atlantic Mobile (now Verizon Wireless), Red Hat, NASA, the US Navy, ishopehere.com, i-Gift, IDG (Brazil), GE, Digital Garage, Verio, www.HireTechs.com, Park City Ski Area, and Storm Linux.

Zope is also the application server behind popular systems such as Plone and Silva.

Who maintains Zope?

Zope was first conceived at Zope Corporation, but is maintained by a vibrant community. Why not join us?