FYI: oss4lib -- An Interview with Paul Everitt and Ken Manheimer

[iisg.berlin _at__ t-online.de (Axel Diederich)]

liebe liste, ich fand diesen artikel sehr interessant,

An Interview with Paul Everitt and Ken Manheimer of Digital Creations, 
publishers of Zope
http://oss4lib.org/readings/interview-everitt-manheimer-2001-03.php

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One of the world's coolest free software applications is Zope, the web 
application server cum object database from Digital Creations. The story of 
Digital Creations, a consulting company for whom open sourcing the family 
jewels (Zope) and its development process marked the road to financial 
stability and continued growth, is well documented (see here and here for 
more on the corporate history). And the success of Zope itself is easily 
found all over the web, including in messages on varied lists with 
strangely over-the-top enthusiasts saying things like "oh my goodness, I 
get it now, I'm never doing this with anything but Zope again!" including 
maybe one or two from yours truly (btw, if you're never seen or used Zope, 
check out Paul Browning's Zope - a Swiss Army Knife for the Web? for a 
great intro for librarians or university types).
But did you know that some of the key folks behind Zope admit, unabashedly, 
that they've "always wanted to be a librarian"? In fact, when I met Paul 
Everitt, CEO of Digital Creations, at LinuxWorld last month, that's exactly 
what he said. A quick tour of Zope, and especially many of its newest 
features, reveals that the folks behind Zope (Digital Creations staff and 
the many contributors to Zope's open source Fishbowl Process for 
development) think very deeply about many of the same information issues 
fundamental to librarianship... especially metadata, and the creation, 
management, and leveraging thereof.
Paul and Ken Manheimer, developer on many Zope projects at Digital 
Creations (and noted as "Mailman's Savior" in the acknowledgements of 
everybody's favorite list manager, among other accomplishments and 
contributions), graciously agreed to be interviewed about recent 
developments in Zope for oss4lib.
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Axel Diederich
Internationales Institut für Sozialgeschichte
http://www.iisg.nl