What Really Happened with Mambo?

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

[User 956]

Here's a link to the google cached version of the page. Google Cache [66.102.7.104].

Re:article slashdotted -- here's a copy

[User 956]

Looks like the google cache is running slowly, since it's trying to pull images from the slashdotted server, which slows stuff down. here's a link [66.102.7.104] directly to the text of the article (no images).

Re:correction

[n00tz]

and if that isn't good enough you can go try it and others out over at Open Source CMS [opensourcecms.com]. This was my method for determining what CMS I'd be using for various projects. It is a _GREAT_ resource.

Re:Wow

[LDoggg_]

Just do a quick implmentation. Seriously its easy.

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

[trompete]

Even more important: most of the 3rd-party developers went to Joomla, so Joomla will continue to pull ahead in the next year.

Re:article slashdotted -- here's a copy

[edgr]

And here is that same google cache link without the annoying highlighting on every second word [66.102.7.104].

In the heat of the moment

[realkiwi]

"The Jem Report
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

[nodnarb1978]

There's a worm currently in propagation that affects unpatched Mambo 4.5.3.x installs. Unknown if the precise worm affects Joomla, however I do note a concurrent "security release" of Joomla as well. The worm compromises via SQL injection, and opens the error_log on all virtual hosts on a given server, in an attempt to obfuscate the true source of the error. Meanwhile, the worm launches a perl process and begins portscanning and attacking other hosts -- it also googles to find new sources for infection. Compromised servers check in at a predetermined IRC room/server.

Official Release on Mamboserver.com [mamboserver.com].

I would strongly advise getting your site patched circa now.

Re:Totally bogus

[Some Bitch]

So what? If they created the product originally, they have every right to want to do things their way and to make sure they do not lose control of their project.

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

[optilude]

This resource looks good on the surface, but if you look at their requirements, they *only* feature PHP4/MySQL systems. For example, Plone (http://plone.org/ [plone.org] is one of the most mature and successful open source content management systems (and yes, I do work with it), and is not mentioned on the site. Who knows what other good systems are not featured there? In my mind, it makes this a pretty useless web site for all but the narrowest of searches.