Editing Zope (section)

==History==
The Zope Corporation was formed in 1995 in [[Fredericksburg, Virginia]] under the name Digital Creations, as a joint venture with InfiNet (a joint newspaper chain venture). The company developed a classified advertisement engine for the Internet. In 1997, the company became independently owned and private. The company's software engineers are led by CTO Jim Fulton. PythonLabs, creators of Python, became part of the company in 2000 (Python founder [[Guido van Rossum]] left Zope Corp in 2003).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/09/1549236|title=Guido van Rossum Leaves Zope.com - Slashdot|website=developers.slashdot.org}}</ref>

What is now known as Zope 2 began with the merging of three separate software products – Bobo, Document Template, and BoboPOS – into the Principia application server. At the behest of its largest investor, Opticality Ventures, Principia was re-released as free software under the name Zope in 1998. Bobo, and therefore Zope, was the first Web [[Object (computer science)|object]] publishing solution.<ref name="linuxjournal"/><ref name="pje"/>

In November 2004, Zope 3 was released. Zope 3 is a [[Rewrite (programming)|complete rewrite]] that preserves only the original [[Zope Object Database|ZODB]] object database. It is directly intended for enterprise Web application development using the newest development paradigms. Zope 3 is, however, not compatible with Zope 2, so Zope 2 applications do not run on Zope 3. It was originally intended to introduce a [[backwards-compatibility]] layer so that Zope 2 software would run on Zope 3. Instead a module known as Five introduced the new Zope 3 paradigms into Zope 2, although full compatibility isn't possible that way either.

The existence of two incompatible Web frameworks called Zope has caused a lot of confusion. In response, in January 2010, Zope 3 was renamed "BlueBream".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bluebream.zope.org/doc/1.0/introduction.html#overview|title=BlueBream documentation|access-date=2010-01-17|archive-date=2010-01-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100122133319/http://bluebream.zope.org/doc/1.0/introduction.html#overview|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://foundation.zope.org/minutes/zfbod-minutes-20100114|title=Zope Foundation Board of Directors meeting 2010-10-14|access-date=2010-01-17}}</ref> "Zope" and "blue bream" are names of a kind of fish, [[Ballerus ballerus]].