The history of eZ publish

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The eZ publish project was started in 1999. Since then, it has benefited from years of development and user input. In the early beginning it was a project that was under constant development and was only used by some Norwegian companies. With the 2.1 and 2.2 series, eZ publish grew and became a very popular content management system. The solution was suddenly being used in all kinds of businesses all over the world and has now been translated into 26 languages. Since its initial release, eZ publish 2.2 has been downloaded more than 500.000 times.

The latest edition of the eZ publish system is the 3.x series; which is not only a content management system, but also a very powerful development framework. It provides freedom and flexibility, a solution that the users can grow with. The initial release of eZ publish 3 was in March of 2003. More and more people and companies worldwide are using eZ publish 3 to run and manage their websites, webshops, intranets, portals etc. eZ publish 3 is being downloaded around 40.000 times every month from ez.no. With the eZ publish 3 release eZ publish has become one of the most popular content management systems in the world with users on all continents and in all market segments.

You will find more basic information about eZ publish here.

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General information

About the documentation
What is eZ publish?
    Possibilities with eZ publish
    Benefits
    The main/key features of eZ publish
    The history of eZ publish
    Differences between eZ publish 2.x an...
    eZ publish requirements
    Releases
What is eZ systems?


Created

17/09/2003
3:47:46 pm
by Balazs Halasy

Last updated

19/07/2004
1:46:26 pm
by Frederik Holljen

Authors

Balazs Halasy
Georg Rehfeld
Terje Gunrell-Kaste
Guttorm Flatabø
Frederik Holljen



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