Phpbb News & Articles

A market research company is currently interviewing developers about the adoption of various technologies, particularly in open source circles. If you are:

• Programming professionally with open source tools, for revenue-producing work (that is, not inside-the-company-only apps)
• Regularly using Drupal, Joomla, SugarCRM, WordPress or phpBB
• In the U.S. or Canada
• Willing to answer some questions (both online and, ideally, by phone)

Head here to sign up.

Your information will be kept entirely confidential. Participants will be sent a summary of the results in early summer, and those who are interviewed by phone will receive a $25 Amazon gift certificate as a thank you for their time.

Minerva is largely a services company providing a variety of web design and development solutions. Based in India, the organization is now moving in a product direction, targeting new ways to develop income sources and retain client relationships.

Now for the sake of our credibility, we're not convinved that their latest project,  Minerva Infotech CMS 1.0, is going to make ripples in the web cms pond, but perhaps it will sprout some legs. So on a slow news day in early January we've decided it's worth noting.

Microsoft, a company that isn’t known for working tightly with the open source world, has announced the Microsoft Web Installer. This beta application is aimed at helping Web site administrators install and configure widely-used Web Applications onto a Windows-powered server.

Surprisingly, Microsoft is aiding administrators with installing popular open source software packages — including WordPress, Drupal, DotNetNuke, phpBB and Graffiti CMS.

JumpBox, provider of virtual appliances to simplify server software deployment, has just released six new appliances for open source products. The JumpBox library has been bolstered with new applications for Cacti networking graphing system, phpBB bulletin boards, ProjectPier project management, TikiWiki, PmWiki, and MoinMoin- another Wiki product.

The total number of JumpBox appliances now stands at twenty.

Free OSS forum platform phpBB 3.0 has just gone live. It offers a range of new features designed to make your forums better and brighter than ever before and to bring them to the small screen.

Key highlights of the release include security augmentations, more collaboration features, built-in SEO and delegated administration features. The whole thing has been optimized for the challenges of the mobile web.