Mambo and Joomla: one year after the split

[mandy]

In August 2005 Mambo, one of open source's poster child content management systems (CMS), was involved in a bitter duel with its core developers, who forked the project to give birth to Joomla. Could the developers survive without the management? Could Mambo do without its developers? Surprisingly, both projects today are doing pretty well. Here's a look at the projects' history, developer relations, community-building, and future prospects...

The main difference between the two, Stewart thinks, is the community currently following Joomla. "They've succeeded on a grand scale and they have real support out there. Not least, they have the respect from their followers, peers and competitors alike, for their dedication to the community."

Hagen Graf, the author of Building Websites with Mambo and Building Websites with Joomla , says most of his clients have shifted to Joomla, for reasons that include "a mixture of reliable third-party developers, security, and good support, among other things. Joomla has released nearly every month a better version 1.0.0 - 1.0.11." ...

full article: http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl...21/1832241&from=rss