In 1995, Zope Corporation (then known as Digital Creations)
was co-founded by former college roommates, Paul Everitt and Rob Page as a
joint venture with Virginia based InfiNet, an ISP specializing in print media.
The team developed software for newspapers to manage classified advertising.
With the advent of the Internet, Zope Corporation found a
niche by taking the concept of content management and developing an
object-oriented framework for publishing that content to the Internet with
enriched, unique functionality. Adding the open source solution component, with
its growing acceptance by the mainstream technology and business elite, renders
the Zope solution a viable threat to other major players in the content
management space. Zope applications are currently in use in more than 56
countries.
Corporate Timeline
1995
Co-Founders Rob Page and Paul Everitt establish Digital Creations
June 1996
Jim Fulton joins as COO
The initial Zope application server platform is created
November 1998
Zope released as open source
May 2000
ZapMedia and Digital Creations partner
November 2000
PythonLabs joins the Digital Creations team
February 2001
bayMountain partners with Digital Creations
March 2001
CMF 1.0 released at InternetWorld '01
Digital Creations nominated as "Best of Show" at InternetWorld
April 2001
Digital Creations moves into new corporate headquarters
Jolt Excellence and Productivity Award for the Languages and Development
category presented to Digital Creations for Zope
July 2001
Digital Creations renames itself Zope Corporation
Zope 2.4 released
