Zope and Nuxeo CPS Chosen by the French Atomic Energy Commission

Nuxeo and the CPS team are happy and proud to announce that the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) has chosen Nuxeo Collaborative Portal Server as a national application, providing the groups and projects with services for collaborative work. Already more than 30 instances of CPS are in use at CEA, and much more are planned after new improvements scheduled for this summer.

This contract will benefit the Zope, CMF and CPS communities, since all the improvements made during the contract will be available as GPL software. That includes improvements to the Zope authentification ("yet another user folder", as Paul E. said in a private conversation) and CPS user management systems, document storage scalability, better WebDAV support, better mailing list support, as well as specific new products.

Other long-running ongoing contracts, including ones with the French Ministry of Culture and of Interior, as well as with local administrationsm, will ensure continous development of CPS for at least the 3 following years.

More information:

• The press release
• nuxeo.org/cps (bilingual)
• cps-project.org (mostly french)
• nuxeo.com/en (business information, in english)
• Slides from my presentation at Europython 2003 ("Nuxeo CPS: past, present, future")
(read a transcript on Linux Weekly News).

More about CEA

The French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in the fields of energy, defense, information technologies, communication and health. Ever since it was created in 1945, it has successfully responded to major scientific challenges in many fields, including the French nuclear power generation program, nuclear deterrence, micro- and nanotechnologies, astrophysics, medical imaging, toxicology, biotechnologies, etc.

The CEA in figures: 9 research centers; a manpower of 16,000 people; 1,600 patents; 430 million euros in revenues from technology transfers; 1,300 contracts signed with industries, 80 high-tech companies created since 1986 with 1,500 direct jobs.