[Zope] ANN: Brasil On-line launches Zope-based news service

[Luciano Ramalho]

Brasil On-line (BOL) launched yesterday a real-time news service based of 
the Zope application server platform. The service, which can be seen an 
<http://www.bol.com.br/noticias/>, is fully automated. Feeds from Reuters 
and Climatempo, a local weather information provider, are retrieved every 
15 minutes and pages are updated accordingly. A third information provider, 
Gazeta Esportiva, uses remotely accessible forms to post their stories.

All pages in the BOL news areas are generated by a Zope application 
developed by Hiperlogica of Sao Paulo, Brazil <http://www.hiper.com.br>. 
The code that retrieves weather information was written directly in Python, 
and feeds a PostgreSQL database, which is queried by Zope. The Reuters 
material is pulled directly by DTML Methods, which use the ZClient facility 
included in Zope. The stories are then copied to Zope DTML Documents to be 
served locally.

The BOL news area is the eighth Zope based site developed by Hiperlogica. 
Other recent cases include the American Chamber of Commerce in Sao Paulo, 
Brazil <http://www.amcham.com.br>, MAGNET magazine 
<http://www.magnet.com.br> and the Achademia education portal 
<http://achademia.uol.com.br>.

Early on Hiperlogica focused on Zope. Their first client -- IDGnow!, 
<http://www.idgnow.com.br>, Brazil's leading technology news web site -- 
uses a Zope-based solution since April 1999. "Zope is an extremely flexible 
platform where programmers, designers and end-users of all skill levels can 
collaborate in way that is more rational and cost-effective than any other 
system I have tried in five years of web development experience.", says 
Luciano Ramalho, one of the founders of Hiperlogica.

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The Hiperlogica team wishes to extend to the creators of Python and Zope, 
and to the entire Zope community, our heartfelt thanks and congratulations 
on such wonderful pieces of software engineering.

Best regards,

Luciano Ramalho





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