CA and Zope Partner to Bring Open Source Content Management to Mainstream Enterprise Market

Technology Collaboration Provides Customers With Highly Robust and Adaptable Database-Enhanced Web Business Solutions

LAS VEGAS, May 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- caworld -- Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA - News)and Zope Corporation today 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.

About Zope Corporation

Zope Corporation, the leading provider of Enterprise Content Management solutions based on the open source Zope application server, rapidly creates and deploys high-performance, scalable systems. Source code is included, giving clients complete control over their software. Fortune 1000 companies, newspapers, broadcast media, telecoms, government agencies, military and educational institutions are among its clients. Products include Zope Enterprise CMS, Zope4Media, Zope4Intranets, Zope Replication Services (ZRS), Zope Managed Hosting (ZMH), Zope Registration Manager (ZRM). Zope Corporation is backed by Opticality Ventures. Fredericksburg, VA 540-361-1720 http://www.zope.com.

About CA

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA - News), the world's largest management software company, delivers software and services across operations, security, storage, life cycle and service management to optimize the performance, reliability and efficiency of enterprise IT environments. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and operates in more than 100 countries. For more information, please visit http://ca.com.

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CONTACT:
Lois Snitkoff
Zope Corporation
540-361-1720
lois@zope.com

None of the leading CMS packages seemed quite right for our situation. Our challenge was political and institutional as much as technical. We needed a system that was very flexible, with open source code, that would encourage people to share resources and work together. Zope was responsive to our needs and we're now working with them to create a CMS solution that we hope will transform Duke's online activities. Zope will then adapt this solution in Zope4Edu for other universities with a similar 'federated environment.'
- Tracy Futhey, Vice President for Information Technology/CIO, Duke University