Open Source CMS, Mambo to Joomla

The full and true story about what has happened to the well-known Mambo Open Source CMS is not known to me, nor am I that interested in investigating it. A simpler bit of information is that a significant number of the Mambo core dev team have now created the Open Source Matters (OSM) foundation, have rebranded Mambo as Joomla and are now developing and making releases based on a stable Mambo code snapshot.

In an open letter to the community, the OSM team states:

“We, the development team, have serious concerns about the Mambo Foundation and its relationship to the community. We believe the future of Mambo should be controlled by the demands of its users and the abilities of its developers. The Mambo Foundation is designed to grant that control to Miro, a design that makes cooperation between the Foundation and the community impossible.”

Joomla is free, open-source, licensed as GNU GPL and all that good stuff. Its alive and kicking — the OSM boys have so far made several releases, with v1.0 mapping directly to Mambo v4.5.2.3.

Their stated intention is to support backwards compatibility with Mambo 4.5 for the foreseeable future, however the they are certainly encouraging migration from Mambo to Joomla.

The developer community is now run on an instance of Source Forge, and as of this writing, there were over 5000 registered users and there had been over 15,000 downloads.

The project has energy and broad community support. Its good to see that the shake-up has turned into something positive and that the OSM team has taken a respectable and even inspirational stance. Good luck to them.

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Nor has Mambo slowed down - big community over there. They already have a new team on board and have announced plans for their next release! Go Open Source!

Posted by: PhilTer on October 29, 2005 9:41 AM

at any given point there are 3 times the amount of guests and registered users on the joomla forums than on the mambo forums.

mambo is dead because it was controlled by a corporation.

Posted by: joomlamoves on November 30, 2005 6:40 PM

I have been researching cms options and was a bit po'd to go to Mambo and see that Joomla hacked the demo so that it has joomla pop-ups and crashes anyone's browser who uses the mambo demo. If Joomla is so much better and user freindly than why screw with the mambo servers - not a good way to encourage migration. Joomla stinks!!

Posted by: rexman on January 8, 2006 10:16 AM

I totally agree with what you're saying. I wish more people felt this way and took the time to express themselves. Keep up the great work.

Garret Hunter

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Posted by: Garret Hunter on January 15, 2006 1:13 AM

creat your web site through mambo/joomla

Posted by: sharma hemant on March 1, 2006 6:05 AM

Mambo is cool. I've created http://www.oasedev.ro in minutes.

Posted by: Marius on March 21, 2006 8:13 AM

I have being using the Joomla CMS for over a year now and I believe the core development team plus the community and third party developers have taken Joomla to a whole new level which makes it one of the most flexible and scaleable open source CMS solutions on the net.

Posted by: James on March 26, 2006 12:34 PM

Have any of you used DotNetNuke? I'm looking at the various open source options. Besides being tied to Microsoft technology, are there any good reasons not to use DotNetNuke?

Thanks,
chris

Posted by: chris on April 21, 2006 6:52 PM

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