Building Website with Joomla!

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Joomla!--How was it Developed?
An Australian company, Miro (
http://www.miro.com.au/
), developed a CMS named Mambo in
the year 2001. It made this system available as open-source software to test it and to make sure of
a wider distribution. In the year 2002, the company split its product Mambo into a commercial and
an open-source version. The commercial variant was called Mambo CMS, the open-source
version Mambo Open Source (MOS). In the meantime, all parties involved agreed that MOS can
officially be called Mambo and together a successful future for the fastest developing CMS of the
moment was secured.
The advantages of the commercial version for companies are primarily in increased security and
the fact that they have the company Miro, which also supports further development, as a partner.
The advantage the open-source version offers is that it is free and that an enormous community of
users and developers alike provide continuous enhancements. In addition, it is possible for
enterprises to take Mambo as a base and to build their own solutions on top of it.
In order to secure the existence and the continued development of Mambo, there were
deliberations on all sides in the course of the year 2005 to establish a foundation for the
open-source version of Mambo.
On August 10, 2005 it finally happened: The Mambo Foundation was announced on the Mambo
project page. After the positive reactions in the first few hours, it quickly became obvious that
Miro in Australia established the foundation and that the developer team had not been included
into the incorporation modalities. Heated discussions erupted in the forums of the community and
the developer team wrapped itself in silence for a few long days.
On the August 17, 2005 a statement was finally published by OpenSourceMatters, announcing that
it would be advised by the neutral Software Freedom Law Center and was planning the continued
development of Mambo.
Discord quickly developed between the Miro Mambo Foundation that was all of a sudden without
a development team and an inflamed international community of hundreds of thousands of users.
The parties sometimes called each other names in blogs, forums, and the respective project pages.
Meanwhile, development of both projects continued. The Mambo Foundation released a beta version
of Mambo 4.5.3 on the August 26, 2005, which was not well received in the relevant forums.
The development team itself, of course, needed a new name for the split entity. On September 1,
2005, the name for the split entity was announced--Joomla!. This time the developer team
secured itself the rights for the use of a name and also gave the community the option of changing
their existing Mambo domains over to the new name before it was announced publicly. In no time
at all, 8,000 users registered with the new forum.