elego Software Solutions GmbH is pleased to announce the first public release of Zync. Zync is a Zope Product that allows export of objects from the Zope DB to a traditional file system and vice versa, including conversion of all attributes and meta data. Zync is well-suited to use an external version control system together with Zope, and to implement staging concepts using multiple Zope servers. Zync is a low-cost commercial product, and is offered at reduced price for non-commercial, non-profit projects. There are plans to use Zync as the base for the integration of commercial version control systems into the Zope architecture. For more information about Zync, including functional description, on-line demo, and download, please refer to http://www.elegosoft.com/index_zync.html -- Olaf Wagner elego Software Solutions GmbH Ohmstrasse 9 10179 Berlin Germany