Djoomla

 During the past couple of weeks there has been a lot of upheaval around the Open Source Content Management System known as Mambo, which is one of the website building tools that we use to create custom web sites.

Mambo was originally started by a firm by the name of Miro. After their development efforts were abandoned. the software at that stage was moved into the OpenSource domain and development continued by a community of developers. The product went from strength to strength, winning numerous prizes along the way. While the software itself is Open Source, the copyright of Mambo still resided with Miro.

Recently, Miro indicated that they wanted to become more involved with the development with Mambo again. Various events transpired during which the core development team decided to break away from the newly formed Mambo Foundation, which was seen as an effort to commercialize Mambo and ignored the wishes of the core development team.

The upshot was that the core developers decided to break off from the development of Mambo and create a new product, Joomla!


What does this mean?

- Because the code is in the Open Source Domain, the developers can take the code and create a new product and develop it further. They are just not allowed to call it Mambo.

- Third party developers of Mambo Components and Modules have all indicated that they support Joomla, therefore I firmly believe that I will be able to use Joomla with the same level of support and committment from these developers than when I used Mambo

- I have therefore started to change all references to Mambo on my site to Joomla! It will, however, still take some time to get all the Joomla infrastructure set up for software, components, modules and so forth, and until that time I shall still refer to some Mambo sites until the migration has fully taken place.