Contact: Paul Everitt, +011 33 63 29 55500, or pr@plone.org.

CAWorld, LAS VEGAS, May 24, 2004 — The Plone Community today announced the formation of the Plone Foundation, an organization committed to providing high quality Open Source software products focused around the Plone content management system.

"This is an important step forward for all of the Plone projects," said Alan Runyan, Plone Foundation President. "The Foundation will strengthen and grow the Plone community, support new development, and create a unique partnership with business and industry. Our customers are the true winners, gaining a greater community, improved capabilities and support infrastructure."

The Foundation will provide development, marketing, and financial support for Plone and related projects. This support comes as Plone is developing critical mass as the most popular and powerful open source content management system. Although the Foundation will provide oversight for all Plone activities, the technical aspects of each project will continue to be governed by each project team.

"The Plone Foundation will further drive collaborative, Open Source development within the broader global Linux community," said Sam Greenblatt, Senior Vice President and Chief Architect of Computer Associates' Linux Technology Group. "CA will contribute code and a dedicated team of engineers to the Plone Foundation to enhance and improve Plone so that both the community and commercial customers achieve benefit from all the skill and creativity being exercised in the marketplace."

The Plone Foundation Leadership

The Plone Foundation has established a founding board of directors which will be responsible for the execution of the foundation's charter. The board is made up of long-standing supporters and contributors to Plone and other Open Source products. Members of the board include:

• Alan Runyan, Enfold Systems (USA) - President
• Alexander Limi, Plone Solutions (Norway) - Vice President
• Matt Hamilton, Netsight (United Kingdom) - Treasurer
• Geoff Davis, Independent (USA) - Secretary
• Robert Boulanger, Blue Dynamics (Germany)
• Bernard Bühlmann, 4teamwork (Switzerland)
• Mark Murphy, Tyrell (USA)
• Mark Barrenechea, Computer Associates (USA)
• Sam Greenblatt, Computer Associates (USA)

The members will represent those organizations and individual developers who have contributed significantly to the development or marketing of Plone.

About The Plone Foundation

The Plone Foundation provides organizational, legal, marketing, and financial support for the Plone open source software projects. The Foundation is incorporated as a membership-based, not-for-profit corporation to ensure that the Plone projects continue to exist beyond the participation of individual volunteers, to enable contributions of intellectual property and financial support, and to provide a vehicle for limiting legal exposure while participating in Open Source projects. For more information on the Plone Foundation, please visit http://plone.org/foundation.

About Plone

Plone is the leading Open Source Enterprise Content Management solutions with a strong focus on usability, standards, internationalization and accessibility. Plone is technology neutral, and runs on Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X and other platforms. Plone was recently awarded the Analyst's Choice Award in eWeek, and is renowned for its ease of use. For more information about Plone, please visit http://plone.org.