[ZDP] BackTalk to Document The Zope Book (2.5 Edition)/Introducing Zope

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    Years ago, Zope's core technologies were designed by Zope Corporation
    for an Internet Service Provider that provided web pages
    for newspapers.  These newspapers in turn wanted to provide web
    pages for *their* customers.  To scale in this environment, Zope
    was designed to safely delegate control to different groups of
    users at any level in the web site. Safely delegating control
    means considering these things:

      1. Presenting information in an easy to understand way. Most people
         understand clicking on folders better than issuing database
         commands, so Zope uses an interface that resembles a simple file
         manager, like *Microsoft Windows Explorer* and other popular
         file managers.

      2. Command line tools can be difficult to use and people are
         generally more comfortable using web browsers, so Zope was
         designed to be used almost exclusively through a web browser.

      3. Collaborative environments require tools to allow users to recover
         from their mistakes and to work without interfering with each
         other, so Zope has Undo, Versions, and other tools to help
         people work safely together.

      % Anonymous User - Nov. 23, 2002 2:04 pm:
       Did you have to the infinitive, "to delegate," split? ;)
        -- Marshall Price (Miami, FL) d021317c at AOL