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Zope Corporation Announces the Launch of Zope Japan Corporation

Monday Wednesday September 8, 2004, 10:00am ET
FREDERICKSBURG, VA -(MARKETWIRE) - September 8, 2004 - Zope Corporation, the leader in open source content management is pleased to announce the recent launch of Zope Japan Corporation.

Zope Japan Corporation will deliver world-class web content management services, solutions and products throughout Japan and to other parts of Asia. Zope is a major open source CMS player globally and Zope Japan Corporation will increase its reach to the Asian marketplace. Zope Japan Corporation is headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo and is a group company of Open Source Japan, Ltd. Zope Japan Corporation is the first Asian base of Zope Corporation. Takeshi Yamamoto is the CEO and Atsushi Shibata is the CTO of this new entity.

World Class Solution Offered in Japan

Zope is the premier open source content management software with a global developer community in excess of 20,000 software engineers enhancing the software around the world. Zope is a powerful implementation platform for the development and management of large scale, robust web sites, such as US NAVY, NASA, NATO, Bank of America, VIACOM, as well as universities, telcoms and newspapers. Zope is rapidly gaining traction and popularity in Japan. Zope is used at major media companies, such as Mainichi Newspaper, Nikkei BP and the Japan Zope User's Group has more than 1000 members.

Zope Japan Corporation has been launched to accelerate this growth and provide a fundamental environment for corporate users to use Zope, knowing they have immediate, on-site support. Zope Japan Corporation will provide world-class cutting edge solutions to the web site manager who wants to manage very large scale web sites efficiently and to the system manager who wants to change their intranet system to a web-based system.

Takeshi Yamamoto, CEO of the new company says, "We are delighted to work with Zope Corporation USA to establish Zope Japan Corporation for the Japanese market. Together we will build a strong Asian Zope enterprise, to serve businesses which today depend upon robust website content and delivery."

Rob Page, CEO of Zope Corporation and a co-founder of the Company says, "We are very excited about founding Zope Japan Corporation. We see this as an opportunity to work with this world-class team in Japan to deliver our Zope solutions and products to the growing Japanese marketplace. We know Zope software will contribute to enhance the already efficient and effective Japanese business solutions by delivering the ability to build flexible, scalable websites for customers and vendors. We will work closely with Zope Japan's staff to deliver the Zope products and solutions in Japan quickly." Business Introduction

Zope Japan Corporation provides the following services under its exclusive agreement with Zope Corporation (USA).

  • Localization of Zope
    Zope Japan Corporation will develop the Japanese version of Zope, targeted to ship in the spring of 2005. With this effort, localization of the user interface and search function will be available after a simple installation process.
  • Localization and Sales of Zope Commercial Products
    Zope Commercial Products such as "Zope4Edu" (for educational organizations), "Zope4Intranets" for all intranet needs, "Zope4Media" for newspapers, television, radio, and Zope Enterprise CMS (all large organizations), Zope Managed Hosting and Zope Replication Services will be internationalized and localized.
  • Education and Training for Zope
    Education and training services will be provided for organizations and individuals who wish to develop Zope-based sites. Services include Zope, Python ( required for advanced site development) and Plone (a typical application built on top of Zope).
  • Hosting of Zope Sites
    High quality managed hosting services will be provided to users who want to operate sites built on Zope.

Consulting for Zope

Zope Japan Corporation will work as a member of Open Source Japan Group and provide support and consulting services to Open Source Japan, Ltd's projects. Zope Japan Corporation will focus on technology as well as deliver premier solutions and services to its customers.

Management Introduction

CEO, Takeshi Yamamoto is the only Japanese software engineer to participate in the global Plone community. He has translated the Plone Book 1 and directed Plone Seminars. Atsushi Shibata, CTO, is the author of the Zope-based application "COREBlog". COREBlog is a Blog application, known throughout the world. COREBlog has achieved great success and is the only Zope application developed in Japan.

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: Zope4Media (most advanced, affordable web content publishing solution for broadcast and print media); Zope4Intranets (robust, configurable, programmable, extensible, enterprise class Intranet); Zope Enterprise CMS (robust, configurable, programmable, extensible, enterprise class CMS addresses unique business/technical requirements); Zope Replication Services (product family increases performance / recoverability for Zope enterprise clusters); Zope Managed Hosting (multi-tiered, Zope-optimized managed hosting / services for Zope Corporation products / solutions. Servers are co-located in tier-1 AT&T datacenter); Zope Registration Manager (designs, delivers, stores and manages "registrations" e.g., memberships / contests / newsletters / surveys / polls); Zope4Edu (university-specific CMS). Services encompass custom solutions, training (including a global partner network), support and managed hosting. Zope Corporation is backed by Opticality Ventures. Fredericksburg, VA 540-361-1720 http://www.zope.com/

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

CONTACT:
Public Relations
Zope Japan Corporation
pr@zope.co.jp
+81-3-3284-7602

The Zope4Media platform has allowed GateHouse to focus on training journalists at weekly papers to publish daily content on the web, while not distracting them with the technology. As we bring our daily papers online using Zope4Media, sites already on the platform will benefit from the new features required by the larger sites. Our smallest newspaper will have the same tools to help grow their online audience and revenue as our largest newspaper. This technology is powerful and very flexible and Zope is clearly a leader in this field.
- Bill Blevins, Vice President of Internet Operations, Gatehouse Media