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Mambo (software) 115
Mambo (software)
Developer(s) Mambo Foundation Inc.
Stable release
Written in PHP
Operating
system
4.6.5 [1] / June 26, 2008
Cross-platform, PHP-compatible -- Linux preferred
Type Content management system
License GNU General Public License v2
Website http:/ / mambo-foundation. org
Mambo (formerly named Mambo Open Source or MOS) is a free software/open source content management
system (CMS) for creating and managing websites through a simple web interface.
Features
Mambo includes advanced features such as page caching to improve performance on busy sites, advanced templating
techniques, and a fairly robust API. It can provide RSS feeds and automate many tasks, including web indexing of
static pages.
Advanced interface features include printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, forums, polls, calendars,
website searching, language internationalization, and many others.
Mambo Foundation
The rights to the Mambo CMS codebase, name and copyrights, are protected by the Mambo Foundation [2] , a
non-profit corporation formed to support and promote the Mambo Open Source project. [3] The Mambo Foundation
is a non-profit entity established under the laws of Australia. The Foundation is based on Eclipse and GNOME and is
controlled by the members of the Foundation via an elected Board of Directors. The Mambo Foundation's brief is to
foster the development of the Mambo system and to shelter the project from threats and misuse.
Timeline of Mambo History
• 2000: Miro Construct Pty Ltd, registered in March 2000 in Melbourne, and headed up by CEO Peter Lamont, a
former advertising executive, starts development of Mambo, a closed-source, proprietary content management
system.
• 2001: The company adopted a dual licensing policy, releasing Mambo Site Server under the GPL on Sourceforge
in April 2001.
• May 2001: The mamboserver.com domain name is registered.
• From this time until the middle of 2002, Miro was the only developer of Mambo, contributing bug-fixes and
security patches but not really extending the code or adding to the feature sets.
• 2002: Miro releases the commercial CMS called Mambo 2002. [4]
• With version 3.0.x, the open source Mambo Site Server becomes "Mambo Open Source" (commonly referred to
as "MOS").
• Robert Castley becomes Project Director of Mambo Open Source. [5]
• By the end of 2002, Robert Castley had pulled together a volunteer team of developers.