FREDERICKSBURG, VA--(MARKET WIRE)--Jun 13,
2005 -- Zope Corp., publishers of Zope®, the leading
Open Source Web application server, announced today that
Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. has selected its
Zope4Media platform and enterprise managed hosting service
for all its 133 newspaper properties.
"It's critical for
CNHI's newspapers to expand and succeed in the online
arena," said Michael Reed, CEO of CNHI. "This new platform
allows us to leverage all of our resources on the Web and
build dynamic sites for the future."
"Developers from our
largest newspapers are thrilled with the technology,
flexibility and value the Zope platform brings to our
sites," said Bill Blevins, CNHI vice president of Internet
operations. "We are eagerly working to consolidate our core
online product on the Zope4Media platform in Zope's managed
hosting environment. This relationship will allow our
newspapers to turn their full attention to creating great
online content for our visitors and launching new
advertising channels for revenue generation without the
distractions of operational support for a large number of
individual sites.
"We are particularly excited about
Zope4Media's ability to syndicate all types of content to
both our print newsrooms and to our sites," Blevins
said. "We expect to reap significant benefits from our
network of sites with this feature."
CNHI's transition to
the new platform began in May 2005 with the launch of a
content syndication site (www.CNHIns.com) where CNHI
newsrooms share stories and photographs through CNHI News
Service editors.
"The Zope technology is a mile wide and a
mile deep," said Brad Dennison, CNHI vice president of
editorial. "We now have a cutting-edge news wire Web site
that allows us to easily and efficiently share the best work
of our newspapers every day while creating an archive of
stories, photos and graphics that our editors can tap into
forever. It's only going to get bigger and better as our
newspapers move to this platform."
CNHI's 89 daily papers
will be moving their sites to the new platform through the
end of the year. A small central team from CNHI's
headquarters in Birmingham will coordinate operational and
design standards with content development functions
remaining distributed at the individual properties.
"We
are proud that CNHI selected Zope Corp. and Zope4Media for
this enterprise-wide project," said Rob Page, CEO of Zope
Corp. "As exciting as the near-term is, we also look
forward to a collaborative relationship with CNHI in the
ongoing development of capabilities and features that serve
their readers and advertisers. The local media market is
competitive and demands innovation. CNHI's ongoing
investments will yield network-wide benefits quickly and at
a lower cost than alternatives."
About Community Newspaper
Holdings Inc.
Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. (www.CNHI.com), formed in 1997
with corporate headquarters located in Birmingham, Alabama,
is the parent company for daily, weekly and semiweekly
newspapers published in more than 200 communities throughout
the United States. A premium has been placed on purchasing
newspapers in geographic proximity, for operational
efficiency and in order to provide additional services to
readers. The company's other holdings include a variety of
ancillary publications and services that complement its
newspaper mission.
http://cnhins.com
http://cnhi.com
About Zope
Corp.
Zope Corp., the leading provider of Enterprise
Content Management solutions based on the open source Zope
application server, rapidly creates and deploys
high-performance, scalable systems. Source code is included,
giving clients complete control over their software. Fortune
1000 companies, newspapers, broadcast media, telecoms,
government agencies, military and educational institutions
are among its clients. Products include: Zope4Media (most
advanced, affordable web content publishing solution for
broadcast and print media); Zope4Intranets (robust,
configurable, programmable, extensible, enterprise class
Intranet); Zope Enterprise CMS (robust, configurable,
programmable, extensible, enterprise class CMS addresses
unique business/technical requirements); Zope Replication
Services (product family increases performance /
recoverability for Zope enterprise clusters); Zope Managed
Hosting (multi-tiered, Zope-optimized managed hosting /
services for Zope Corp. products / solutions. Servers are
co-located in a tier-1 datacenter); Zope Registration
Manager (designs, delivers, stores and manages
"registrations" e.g., memberships / contests / newsletters /
surveys / polls); Zope4Edu (university-specific CMS).
Services encompass custom solutions, training (including a
global partner network), support and managed hosting. Zope
Corp. is backed by Opticality Ventures. Fredericksburg, VA,
540-361-1720, http://www.zope.com/
