The Plone Team Releases Plone 1.0 Professional Open Source System For Managing Content Paris, France -- At the SolutionsLinux 2003 conference, the Plone Team released Plone 1.0, bringing open source into the world of professional systems for managing content. Plone is an open source information management system available in 22 languages, and has a large and active community supporting it. Plone marries design and usability to Zope, the award-winning application server, which provides a powerful open source architecture for rich content and rich content services. The combination provides administrative workflow, multimedia, metadata, integrated search, and the industry's first standards-compliant templating system. Other open-source add-ons provide Plone with integration of documents written in Microsoft Word and OpenOffice, PDF generation, versioning and more. "The Plone infrastructure provides an easy, attractive installation that gives you a professional system in a matter of minutes. The team is passionate about the user experience, and much time has gone into refining and finishing the product", usability analyst Alexander Limi from the Plone Team stated at the release event. The polished installers and integrated products make installation and deployment of Plone far more attractive than other systems. Once installed, users will find a productive environment for authoring, searching, and managing content. "Plone marks an important milestone for Free Software," says Nicolas Pettiaux, ICT manager of Commission Communautaire Française in Brussels. "We now have a complete system for managing information that competes head to head with major proprietary Content Management Systems. For large organizations, as we are in public administration, the arrival of a professional, workflow-oriented system will make Free Software the leading strategy it deserves to be." Plone is available for a number of platforms, including Windows, MacOS X, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. Notable users of Plone include NASA, Government of Hawaii, Lufthansa, and University College London. Plone can be downloaded from the website - http://plone.org/download About Plone Plone is an open source system for managing information and administering content. Plone is backed by Plone International, a non-profit located in France. The organization holds the copyright, and Plone is available under a dual licencing scheme, both the GPL and a commercial license. Plone was founded in 1999 by Alan Runyan (USA), Alexander Limi (Norway) and Vidar Andersen (Norway), and has core developers in 14 different countries. Before the 1.0 release, Plone had already already passed 15 000 downloads. For more information and download options, see http://plone.org. About Zope Zope is a leading open source application server, specializing in content management, portals, and custom applications. Since Zope Corporation introduced Zope as an open source product in 1998, it has become the platform of choice for content publishers, managers, and application developers. As an open source product, Zope comes with complete source code and no software licensing fees. Zope is managed by the global Zope community, with thousands of developers and companies participating worldwide. More information, including the Zope source code, is available at www.zope.org. Press contacts Paul Everitt, Director of Zope Europe Association: paul@zope-europe.org The original version of this press release can be found here: http://plone.org/pr/pressreleases/plone1.0-release