Zope is an open source application server for building intranets, portals and custom applications. It features a transactional object database which can store content and custom data as well as HTML templates; scripts; a search engine; and relational database connections.

Zope is written in the Python programming language and uses Python as its internal scripting language.

Full information pertaining to Zope can be found at zope.org.

Why we use Zope

Where possible we use technologies which are platform agnostic - they'll run on Windows, Mac OS, Linux and most flavours of Unix. We do this to avoid our customers being tied into one specific platform. Zope matches this criteria.

Next, Zope is an open source solution which means that it's actively developed by a range of developers; is open to peer review (a good thing); and, perhaps most importantly from a business perspective, it's available free of charge.

Finally, Python is a robust, object orientated scripting language which is used by thousands of developers all over the world. This means that our customers can rest assured that wherever they are, support is available.