What is Zope?
Zope is an open-source web application server written primarily in the Python programming language. It's tremendously flexible, has a robust security model, and contains a transactional object database which can store not only content and custom data, but also dynamic HTML templates, scripts, a search engine, and relational database (RDBMS) connections and code.
What is Plone?
Plone is an open-source, ready-to-run content management system (CMS) that makes it easy for non-technical users to add, edit and, well, manage a website. Plone is easy to set up, extremely flexible, and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities, web sites, extranets and intranets. It's built on the powerful, open-source Zope application server: so it's stable and low-cost.
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