Cape Town, 26 Jul 2004
A small Stellenbosch-based consultancy, Upfront Systems, is training developers from US software and services giant Computer Associates in open source content management software.
Upfront Systems CEO Roche Compaan says one of his staff members left for Islandia, New York, where he will run a one-week course on Zope and Plone, two systems that have become popular for content management systems.
Plone is used as an intranet and extranet server, as a document publishing system, a portal server and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities.
Zope is an open source application server for building content managements, intranets, portals, and custom applications.
Compaan says both are popular in the US and Europe and CA`s need to have its developers trained indicates that open source systems are making more business sense for even large corporations.
Computer Associates announced in May that it would partner with Zope Corporation and join the Plone Foundation board.
"This move, by one of the world`s software giants, should boost confidence in the platform, and dramatically increase its visibility," Compaan says.
Upfront Systems has been using Zope and Plone for about five years.
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