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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. correction by molnarcs · · Score: 5, Insightful
    If you're using Mambo currently, do you need to switch to Joomla? The answer is no, as far as my research for this article shows.

    Hmmm... You don't have to do much research to see that the future lies with Joomla. Basically the entire development team - the same team that made mambo great - left and they are working on Joomla now. How safe is to stay with a product that has "we are looking for developers" on their website for months? Especially since joomla! offers a clear migration path... Basically the first release is latest mambo with trademarks stripped out, so the sooner one switches the better...

    If we compare the "roadmap" of the two projects, joomla has a clearer vision of the future, so yeah, I don't think mambo is a safe bet from what I've seen.

    1. 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.

      --
      I had college once, but I drank some fluids and got a lot of rest and eventually it was cured.
  2. Anonymous? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hmm. Why is Shawn Carey, who posts news items to the official Mambo website labelled as Anonymous Coward when submitting this story? Hover over the link, that's his email address. A bit suspicious that an interested party is submitting stories as Anonymous Coward, don't you think?

  3. 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.

  4. Ego by saterdaies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The whole situation can be sumarized as:

    Miro started Mambo. They did the original work, they got the ball rolling and so they believed that they were entitled to be in charge.

    Some of the Mambo community developers did a lot of work on Mambo and, arguably, Mambo wouldn't be here today without them. While they didn't start it, they saw their contributions are paramount and they thought they were entitled to be in charge.

    Mostly, it's a battle of ego. Anyone who reads the Joomla! website can see that it's a battle of ego. They tried to claim that it was a renaming, that they were the real Mambo, that they were better than Mambo, etc. Frankly, which one is the "real" Mambo is a philosophical question that I think is stupid, but it's easy to see that this is an ego fight between two camps who both have legitimate claims to leadership of the project.