<s>
ZyWeb	B-General_Concept
is	O
an	O
online	O
webpage	O
authoring	O
tool	O
,	O
created	O
and	O
owned	O
by	O
ZyNet	O
Ltd	O
,	O
and	O
is	O
currently	O
at	O
version	O
3.1	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ZyWeb	B-General_Concept
was	O
created	O
to	O
enable	O
non-technical	O
users	O
to	O
create	O
and	O
publish	O
web	O
sites	O
without	O
the	O
need	O
for	O
any	O
design	O
,	O
authoring	O
or	O
technical	O
skills	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ZyWeb	B-General_Concept
has	O
been	O
in	O
service	O
since	O
1998	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Xara	O
Ltd	O
(	O
www.xara.com	O
)	O
,	O
which	O
had	O
grown	O
out	O
of	O
Computer	O
Concepts	O
,	O
brought	O
their	O
experience	O
with	O
vector	O
graphics	O
to	O
provide	O
what	O
remains	O
one	O
of	O
ZyWeb	B-General_Concept
's	O
USPs	O
,	O
its	O
"	O
smart	O
graphics	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Once	O
the	O
product	O
was	O
launched	O
,	O
the	O
two	O
companies	O
joined	O
to	O
form	O
a	O
new	O
company	O
,	O
known	O
as	O
Zy.com,	O
and	O
this	O
company	O
followed	O
the	O
all-too-familiar	O
progress	O
of	O
so	O
many	O
others	O
during	O
the	O
dot	O
com	B-Application
bubble	O
of	O
the	O
1990s	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Venture	O
capital	O
was	O
attracted	O
and	O
millions	O
of	O
dollars	O
were	O
burned	O
before	O
the	O
bubble	O
burst	O
and	O
Zy.com	O
collapsed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
unlike	O
so	O
many	O
other	O
services	O
,	O
ZyWeb	B-General_Concept
survived	O
this	O
period	O
intact	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ZyWeb	B-General_Concept
is	O
founded	O
on	O
a	O
Windows	B-Application
platform	O
,	O
using	O
ASP/VBScript	O
to	O
wrap	O
up	O
custom	O
COM	B-Application
objects	I-Application
,	O
largely	O
written	O
in	O
C++	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
development	O
started	O
in	O
1998	O
,	O
the	O
available	O
platform	O
was	O
Windows	B-Application
NT3.51	O
running	O
IIS3	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
Linux	B-Application
based	O
accelerator	O
sits	O
between	O
the	O
Windows	B-Application
cluster	B-Architecture
and	O
the	O
Internet	O
and	O
this	O
provides	O
a	O
range	O
of	O
other	O
services	O
which	O
were	O
unavailable	O
or	O
unusable	O
on	O
Windows	B-Application
NT3.51	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Today	O
,	O
things	O
have	O
moved	O
on	O
and	O
ZyWeb	B-General_Concept
runs	O
on	O
a	O
relatively	O
small	O
cluster	B-Architecture
of	O
modern	O
servers	O
with	O
current	O
editions	O
of	O
Windows	B-Application
which	O
do	O
not	O
suffer	O
nearly	O
as	O
many	O
problems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
an	O
updated	O
Linux	B-Application
accelerator	O
remains	O
in	O
place	O
and	O
continues	O
to	O
provide	O
important	O
additional	O
services	O
,	O
particularly	O
email	O
management	O
.	O
</s>
