What Really Happened with Mambo? 107
Anonymous Coward writes "What Happened with Mambo?
There is a good article about the recent events that resulted in a changing of the guard at Mambo. Jem Matzan does his best to objectively debunk what happened. It looks like much research was conducted to produce this article and it is very informative. Check it out!" In the interest of full disclosure as well, our corporate parent also hosts Joomlaforge.
article slashdotted -- here's a copy (Score:5, Informative)
Re:article slashdotted -- here's a copy (Score:4, Informative)
Re:correction (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Wow (Score:3, Informative)
Pull down XAMPP [apachefriends.org] and then uznip joomla into the htdocs directory. You could have the full technology stack and website contained in a directory. Fire it up and slap your corporate logo on the default theme.
It looks professional out of the box, just show it to the powers that be. The goofy name of the software should be irrelevant.
Also if you want to give a more in depth demo showing how to create content, install MOSCE [za.net] and make it the default editor, its much easier to use than what mambo/joomla comes with.
Re:correction (Score:4, Informative)
Re:article slashdotted -- here's a copy (Score:5, Informative)
In the heat of the moment (Score:3, Informative)
This site is temporarily unavailable.
Please notify the System Administrator " Ahem
The 30th Nov an exploit against Mambo was announced discretely on the Mambo page. The 3rd of December my sole Mambo site was toast. I found out about the Mambo vs Joomla thing when looking for security updates.
As a result of what I read I dropped Mambo and Joomla and started looking for a Java Portal...
Re:All I really need to know (Score:2, Informative)
Official Release on Mamboserver.com [mamboserver.com].
I would strongly advise getting your site patched circa now.
Re:Totally bogus (Score:3, Informative)
They abandoned the project years ago, it wasn't until Robert Castley took it up after they dropped it that it amounted to much. Under his leadership it turned into from a basic CMS into a great piece of Free software with a large community which is when Miro got interested again.
Re:correction (Score:2, Informative)