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Mambo Changes its Name to Joomla!
Phil Shapiro writes "The popular open source content management system named Mambo has changed its name to Joomla! -- released under the GNU Public License. Some of the reasons for the name change are explained at MamboPortal.com. Joomla! is used by a very wide array of organizations and companies."
I thought it was pretty bad telling my friends I used Mambo...
Now I have to say I use Joomla!, which is almost as ridiculous as saying Yahoo! out loud...
My UID is prime... is yours?
Soon, with Ubuntu and Joomba, we'll be experts in Swahili! ;-) That'd be kind of cool though.
You can only use a stupid name if you have a really big advertising budget.
First P. Diddy, now Mambo? The Humanity!
The first letter in GPL is not GNU. It's the General Public License.
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I don't think I'd call it 'changing their name'. I somehow suspect that we'll still be seeing releases as Mambo from the group still affiliated with the original company, and releases of this Joomla! from this group.
And I'm extremely wary about downloading anything put out by people who can't spell or form cohesive sentences. From the announcement:
"Mambo has changed it's name to Joomla! today. After the develpers of the award wining content management system Mambo has left the rights holder of Mambo, the australian company Miro, they established a new website and will release the first version of Joomla!, which will be version 1.0.0, soon."
To which I say... huh? Somebody needs to remember things like tenses, capitalization of proper nouns, and the difference between it's and its.
me Auntie Joomla, eerie ?
Dem Mambo boys am batty wid dis namin ting.
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mumbo jumbo to me!
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Mambots are actually things inside of Mambo, to show pictures, and do other features, without having to code and what not... Mambo is the content management system itself... Another impressive thing... is that Mambo is so clean and efficient code-wise... I've had my site /. a few times, and each time my server has had no problems keeping up with the traffic... very impressive for an open source content management server... able to handle high-traffic sites with ease...
Amazing what sites powered by Linux can do... all for FREE...
I could care less WHAT they call it, as long as they keep providing such high-quality software as this... for FREE...
By the way, if I was to do a shameless plug, I would say go to my websites, and click on the Google Ads... but that would just be wrong :)
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Of course, it's no coincidence that both the sites you linked to are much more alike (functionally) than they are different.
That's the double-edged sword of powerful systems like Mambo (and drupal for that matter, which I have used for community.auditionrocks.com, although more out of expediency than anything else): they excel at making sites that really require exactly the features that they offer, and no more. That may sound like a stupid statement, but it's no surprise that the vast majority of Mambo-powered and drupal-powered sites have a distinct Mambo or Drupal look and feel. At their best, they let you go from prototyping to actual building very quickly; at their worst, they dictate design. And breaking out of the CMSs presentation paradigm can frequently become more trouble than it's worth.
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I agree. I hate it when people show off about having a girlfriend.
Why would anyone change the name of their product from a semi-reasonable English word, to a nonsense word that any adult would feel embarrassed to say out loud? I can't imagine a better way to scare off potential new users.
Not that the company had a good business idea, or anything, but this is exactly the thing that made sure "Flooz.com" was DOA.
Cantankerous old coot since 1957.
Indeed, it is quite disgraceful when such major web developers are unable to write valid XHTML (in this case) for their own website.
w .joomla.org%2F
u ke.org/
Check if for yourself:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fww
As of this time, seven errors are reported, plus a number of warnings.
It's difficult to tell whether it is a lack of ability, a lack of initiative, or a lack of quality control. Perhaps it is a mixture of all three factors. Regardless, it makes their project look bad. Very bad.
The least that one should expect from a web developer is that the developer's own website is standards-conformant. The lack of professionalism shown by this group of web developers rubs off on all open source developers, unfortunately.
They are, however, far better than PHP-Nuke, which currently offers 96 errors[1] on their homepage.
References:
[1] http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.phpn
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
It looks very unprofessional for a site basically selling your services to contain advertisements along the side. I would be hesitant to deal with a doctor who stuck advertisements on the side of his office sign, just as I would be with a computer systems developer who sticks ads all over his commercial website.
Not only that, but the ads are very religious in nature. Perhaps Google took the "customer service" text to mean "religious service", and thus stuck religious ads all along the right side.
Thanks for the attempt, but I would not deal with you because of the appearance and content of your website.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
On a serious note, I'm wondering what this will mean for Miro and Mambo. If Mambo has a lot of mind share then it will take some work for the Joomla people to communicate that they are the new development branch. Since Joomla is GPL then there is nothing stopping Miro from taking Joomla, renaming it to Mambo, and continuing to market it. In that case it'd be both perfectly legal and the original developers would still be writing code for Miro. Miro could continue to keep the mind share that they have invested in Mambo. I wonder how the Joomla developers plan to counteract that and market their product.
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This is an unfortunate example of why most geeks shouldn't be allowed to name things.
Naming things is tough in this day of domain name squatters, which makes it very tempting to go with meaningless invented names (or names that sound that way to most people - e.g. "Ogg Vorbis"). Weird names are fine for things that don't require much investment to sample them -- but for the case where it does represent a significant investment (in either time, money, or risk) then a weird name can be a severe handicap to the adoption of that product.
Am I the only one who things this article is incredibly biased? I mean, Mambo isn't changing it's name. There will still be a Mambo. Joomla! is a project created based off of Mambo by a lot of the Mambo developers, but it isn't the new name of Mambo.
.this just in Red Hat Linux changes its name to SUSE (insofar as SUSE was based off RH and so clearly it is just a name change and whatever that Red Hat company continues to do isn't real).
Wait. .
Now, there is a VERY strong argument that Joomla! is where all the big Mambo developers are moving and that it will be more Mambo than Mambo, but the post is libelous because Mambo isn't changing it's name. Mambo is staying around with the Mambo name.
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by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Confession: I wrote the site of this CMS above, since I had forgotten the name of the site in the time it took to come back to /. to post this. So that's a sign that either (a) this new name has little sticking power or (b) um, what was I talking about?
I know alot of folks have criticized your site, but I mean really, it looks like a teenager's blog or something. If you want to see increased business, redesign a more professional site, and don't have that animation at the top with the blinking "ftp" http" "sql" etc... its almost as bad as the blink tag. Make your sight simple and elegant, not complex, not black, and don't have ads. Your selling a service, your revenue isn't based off of ads. If your services suck so bad that you need ads to support it then it says something about your service and I would think that alot of people would be hesitant to use it.
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Go ahead and TRY to see what happens when you TRY to run Slashdot, the prime butt trumpet of "standards complience" through the W3C validators. Go ahead! OH! Is that a "403 Forbidden"? Hmm....
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