Web site: mambo-code.org | mambo-foundation.org (not active)
Category: Network
Subcategory: Content Management System
Platform: Cross-platform
License: GNU GPL
Interface: Web-interface
Wikipedia: Mambo
First release: 2000
Mambo – an open Source CMS web portal system.
Mambo is not optimized for accessibility in the 4.5.x development branch. Public administrations will be required to make their websites accessible in the future, so Mambo cannot be used in these areas. However, several developers have enhanced Mambo to enable accessible use – albeit with limited functionality. Furthermore, xMambo is a derivative of Mambo version 4.5 with a focus on accessibility. See also the “Derivatives” section.
xMambo is a fork of Mambo (version 4.5) created in 2004. The focus of xMambo is on compliance with current web standards (XHTML 1.0, CSS, Section 508/WAI), avoiding table-based web design, and thus accessibility. However, in its current version 4.5 r1.0.8, xMambo is not as comprehensive as Mambo in terms of features, templates, and community support. Whether and when xMambo will be further developed is currently unclear.
Limbo was a CMS based on Mambo, but did not require a database application such as MySQL, instead storing content in text files (a so-called FlatDB). This resulted in speed advantages for small websites and enabled execution even on web hosting services without MySQL database support. The disadvantage was that Limbo did not support the creation of multilingual websites.
Limbo is no longer being developed. A fork of the project was called DrakeCMS. In 2008, the project was renamed LaniusCMS and continued to use (and extend) the FlatDB feature (here: GladiusDB and SQLite). LaniusCMS also allowed the creation and maintenance of multilingual websites.
Joomla! is a community project that emerged from Mambo after a dispute over commercial marketing and community participation and is supported by many of Mambo’s original developers.
On August 4, 2005, Miro, the company that initiated the Mambo project, founded the “Mambo Foundation,” which the developers would join in the future and which would coordinate and finance the work. A discussion arose in the community as to whether this step had been taken without sufficient involvement from the developer community.
Many of Mambo’s core developers felt ignored and subsequently joined forces in the newly founded Open Source Matters Foundation. Since the company Miro owned the naming rights to Mambo, the developers associated with Open Source Matters forked the project and developed this fork independently of Mambo under the name Joomla!.
MiaCMS is a fork of Mambo version 4.6.3. The first version, MiaCMS 4.6.4, was released on May 12, 2008.
As a result of a conflict between the owner of the Mambo brand and a large group of creators, the Joomla! project was split from Mambo. The reason for the conflict was a change in the Mambo license, which introduced several significant restrictions to the system. There is also a less advanced version of Mambo called Limbo, which does not require a MySQL database.
As of 17.04.16, the project is no longer being developed.
