[PLUG] Mambo
David Mandel
dmandel at pdxLinux.org
Mon Dec 17 03:57:56 UTC 2007
I think the Joomla people would claim that Mambo is a fork of Mambo, and
Joomla is simply a renaming of Mambo. As I understand, although mambo was
an open source project, the name was owned (as a trademark) by a private
company that was promoting the development of Mambo. At some point,
there was a disagreement between the Mambo community and the company
that owned the name, which resulted in the two going in separate directions.
The company kept the name and maybe a little bit of the community for their
version. The rest of the community started developing using the name Joolma.
I don't know how accurate this story is. It was told to me by a couple
Joolma developers, who were probably somewhat biased.
Joolma is a very popular CMS. I haven't ever used it, but I have looked
at it and it looks very nice to me. Joolma uses standard things like
php and mySQL and apache; so it should be fairly easy to setup and
use with most web hosting services.
Sincerely,
David Mandel
Chief Activist
Portland Linux/Unix Group
560 SE Alexander
Corvallis, Oregon 97333
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On 12/16/07, Michael Ewan <mhewan1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Ted Kubaska wrote:
> > Is anyone local using Mambo? How do you like it? Where do you host it?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -ted
> >
> >
> I haven't used mambo in production, but in my research for easy to
> implement CMS's, Joomla pops out of the top of the list along with
> Drupal, and Wordpress. Joomla is a fork of Mambo. Have you looked at
> cmsmatrix.org for comparisons and reference sites?
>
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