[Zope] ANNOUNCE: Zope and Microsoft Integrate Using Standards

[Li Dongfeng]

Paul Everitt wrote:
> 
> OK, here's announcement number two for today:
> 
> 
> http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/1
> 2-02-1999/0001087563
> 
> Summary:
> 
> Digital Creations announced today increased interoperability between
> its Open Source Zope application server and Microsoft platforms using
> open standards. An early 2000 Zope release will include support for
> two protocols heavily supported by Microsoft, the Simple Object Access
> Protocol (SOAP) and Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)
> protocol.
> 
> What's the translation on this one?  Namely, we'll be adding SOAP
> support to Zope as an augmentation of the XML-RPC support that is there
> now.  Also, Microsoft engineers are talking with us about
> interoperability with the beefed-up DAV implementation in Windows 2000.
> 
So Microsoft has noticed Zope. I hope Digital Creations
will not be acquired by MS soon.

> I'm cooking up another press release, hopefully for next week, then
> that's it for the holidays.  Whew!
> 
> --Paul
> 
> Paul Everitt       Digital Creations
> paul@digicool.com  540.371.6909
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