[Zope] ANNOUNCE: Zope and Microsoft Integrate Using Standards

[Robin Becker]

In article <613145F79272D211914B0020AFF64019262F2B@gandalf.digicool.com>
, Paul Everitt <Paul@digicool.com> writes
>
>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.
>
>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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>The Open Source Zope application server
>http://www.zope.org/
>

So is Zope committed to supporting legacy company products/protocols?
-- 
Robin Becker