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Mambo Changes its Name to Joomla!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rose-by-another-name dept.

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."

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  1. Awesome by cnerd2025 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Soon, with Ubuntu and Joomba, we'll be experts in Swahili! ;-) That'd be kind of cool though.

  2. Invalid markup from such people is a disgrace. by CyricZ · · Score: 5, Informative

    Indeed, it is quite disgraceful when such major web developers are unable to write valid XHTML (in this case) for their own website.

    Check if for yourself:
    http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .joomla.org%2F

    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.phpnu ke.org/

    --
    Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
  3. Re:GNU Public License?! by cirisme · · Score: 5, Funny

    Honestly, it should really be the GPL Public License. :)

  4. Bias? by saterdaies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    Wait. . .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).

    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.