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Open Source CMS Applications Compared

Tue, 04/08/2008 - 17:42 — admin

Tommi West on the Adobe Edge Blog recently compared the most popular open source content management systems available and provides a succint and informative article.  While having good comments for Joomla and Xoops, Drupal was designated the best CMS application for its scalability and community support.

  • Drupal

    Drupal (pronounced /ˈdruːpəl/) is a free and open source modular framework and content management system (CMS) written in the programming language PHP. Drupal, like many modern CMSs, allows the system administrator to organize the content, customize the presentation, automate administrative tasks, and manage site visitors and contributors. Drupal is sometimes described as a "web application framework", as its capabilities extend from content management to enabling a wide range of services and transactions. Drupal runs in many environments, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, and any platform that supports either the Apache (version 1.3+), or IIS (version IIS5+) Web server and the PHP language (version 4.3.3+). Drupal requires a database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL to store content and settings. Source: Wikipedia

Open Source Not Ready for Small Business?

Thu, 03/13/2008 - 22:55 — admin

Ecommerce Times has recently posted 10 Technologies Not Yet Ready for SMBs and describes Open Source as one technology that small to medium-sized businesses should avoid. We couldn't disagree more. The author's primary reason for including open source on the list is because, "open-source software may be "free," but the propeller-heads you need to actually get it working, customized, and supported aren't."

Adoption of Open Source in the Commercial Market

Fri, 02/22/2008 - 20:56 — admin

Curt Finch, CEO for the Austin, Texas-based company Journyx, discusses the remarkable growth of Apache and PostgreSQL in the commercial SaaS markets in this SmartBiz.com article. Finch charts the adoption of the Apache web server over Microsoft IIS and also lists some of the largest SaaS providers who have chosen to use open source solutions. Providers such as Salesforce.com, Rightnow.com and Netsuite.com are doing the same, even though they have the resources to pay for more expensive options.

Microsoft's Half-Hearted Approach to Open Source

Fri, 02/22/2008 - 20:14 — admin

In response to the antitrust rulings of the European Court of First Instance in September, Microsoft has pledged to provide information on its communication protocols to third-party developers to aid in the dialogue with Microsoft products. It has also pledged not to sue open-source developers of non-commercial products. Read an excellent report at CNET News.

Importance of Secure Passwords

Fri, 02/22/2008 - 19:58 — admin

A Harvard University Joomla site has been hacked and its contents published as a torrent file. The files included a complete backup of the data from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences website. Read more about it at TorrentFreak. An excellent secure password generator can be found here.

  • Joomla!/Mambo

    Joomla! is a free, open source content management system for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets. The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization. Joomla is licensed under the GPL, and is the result of a fork of Mambo. It is written with the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database by default. Source: Wikipedia.

Microsoft Giving Away Software

Tue, 02/19/2008 - 23:15 — claymarshall

Yahoo news has reported that Microsoft has decided to give away Visual Studio Professional Edition, Expression Studio, and XNA Game Studio 2.0 to students. The company will also give away SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition and Windows Server Standard Edition.

Drupal Releases Version 6

Fri, 02/15/2008 - 08:40 — claymarshall

Drupal has announced the release of Drupal 6.0 and is calling it the "easiest version of Drupal ever." Drupal promises an easier setup process, drag-and-drop administration, and enhanced security.

As well as implementing Drupal solutions for our clients for the past two years, TrestleMedia has chosen Drupal to power our own Web site and intranet.

  • Drupal

    Drupal (pronounced /ˈdruːpəl/) is a free and open source modular framework and content management system (CMS) written in the programming language PHP. Drupal, like many modern CMSs, allows the system administrator to organize the content, customize the presentation, automate administrative tasks, and manage site visitors and contributors. Drupal is sometimes described as a "web application framework", as its capabilities extend from content management to enabling a wide range of services and transactions. Drupal runs in many environments, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, and any platform that supports either the Apache (version 1.3+), or IIS (version IIS5+) Web server and the PHP language (version 4.3.3+). Drupal requires a database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL to store content and settings. Source: Wikipedia

State of Open Source Message: A New Decade For Open Source

Tue, 02/12/2008 - 00:40 — claymarshall

On the 10th Anniversary of the publishing of the Open Source Definition, Bruce Perens, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative releases his State of Open Source Message.

Microsoft's Open Source Commitment?

Thu, 01/31/2008 - 05:00 — claymarshall

Perhaps one of our biggest challenges in the implementation of Open Source applications for our clients is the need for integration with Microsoft networks and Active Directory servers. While not a lot of progress has been made in this direction, Microsoft appears to be waking up to the need for open source integration. Read Mary Jo Foley's blog entry, "Microsoft’s open-source strategy: A picture is worth a thousand words."