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What Really Happened with Mambo?

Posted by Hemos on from the to-every-season dept.

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.

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  1. article slashdotted -- here's a copy by User+956 · · Score: 4, Informative

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

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    1. Re:article slashdotted -- here's a copy by User+956 · · Score: 3, Informative

      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 directly to the text of the article (no images).

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      The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
    2. Re:article slashdotted -- here's a copy by edgr · · Score: 5, Informative

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

  2. Re:correction by n00tz · · Score: 5, Informative

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

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  3. Re:correction by trompete · · Score: 3, Informative

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

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    More than enough BS
  4. In the heat of the moment by realkiwi · · Score: 3, Informative

    "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...

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    realkiwi