We can see the structure of the site as a question/answer session:

:Q: What's Zope? What's it good for?
:A: It's a web application platform that can be used to build web
    applications, CMSes, etc.

:Q: Where's zope coming from? is this some new thing? 
:A: No, it's mature. We got tons of experience and community and stuff.

:Q: By 'mature' do you mean Zope is old cruft?
:A: Nope, it's going forward, and has been working on this for
    years. (Zope 3)

:Q: Well what's all this Zope 2 and zope 3 then? should I worry? 
:A: Nope, we are managing this, you can use either, and get the
    benefits of both.  (Five)

:Q: What's zope strong in?
:A: In particular, CMS applications.

:Q: Well, what technology does zope have? I'm a developer, what's Zope
    *really* about?  does it have feature X?
:A: well, zope has all this stuff: [list]