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CA and Zope to Bring Open Source CMS to Mainstream Enterprise Market
Computer Associates International, Inc. and Zope Corporation announced plans to provide customers with scalable, open source content management solutions that are compatible with relational database technology and meet enterprise demands for performance, data persistence and manageability.
These collaboratively developed solutions will complement Zope's award- winning open source content management platform with CA's Ingres Enterprise Relational Database (Ingres). Zope implementations are currently supported by the open source, flat-file database, ZODB. While these file structures can be finely tuned to offer high performance, they do not integrate easily with established data center procedures for data access and protection that apply to relational database structures.
Software engineers from CA and Zope will work together to build an open source RDBMS persistence module that takes advantage of APE (Adaptable Persistence Engine). As a result of this new module, Zope implementations will be supportable by Ingres. The new module could also facilitate support of Zope implementations by relational database management systems other than Ingres.
"We have fully embraced Zope as our strategic platform for website content management, and are pleased to see the development work take place that will ensure its integration with other elements of our web infrastructure," said David Williams, manager of web technology for AARP Services, Inc. "A partnership between Zope and CA will give us a lot of confidence that Zope will readily fit in with our future operations planning."
CA is prepared to commit significant development resources to Zope technology. By applying its enterprise management expertise to Zope's acclaimed content management platform, CA will enable customers to more effectively integrate and scale Zope-based solutions to meet evolving business requirements.
"The development of RDBMS-based storage for Zope is the first of many collaborations planned between our two companies," said Sam Greenblatt, senior vice president and chief architect of CA's Linux Technology Group. "Together, we will aggressively evolve Zope within the context of the open source development model, so that the community can also continue enhancing it to meet the escalating demands of business users."
"For large enterprise customers whose web sites are both heavily trafficked and revenue-critical, robust performance and solid data protection are absolute musts," said Hadar Pedhazur, chairman of Zope Corporation. "By working with CA, Zope will be able to deliver solutions that meet these customers' requirements while still enabling them to enjoy the advantages that are inherent with open source software."
CA and Zope Corporation are expected to announce availability of a Zope RDBMS persistence engine by the end of the year. 25.05.2004, Computer Associates
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