Apache OFBiz

Apache Open For Business (Apache OFBiz) is an open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. It provides a suite of enterprise applications that integrate and automate many of the business processes of an enterprise.

Home page : http://ofbiz.apache.org/

OFBiz is an Apache Software Foundation top level project.

Apache OFBiz is a framework, provides a common data model and a rich set of business process. All applications are built around a common architecture using common data, logic and process components. 

Apache OFBiz offers functionality including:

    Accounting (Agreements, Invoicing, Vendor Management, General Ledger)
    Asset Maintenance
    Catalogue and Product Management
    Facility and Warehouse Management
    Manufacturing
    Order Processing
    Inventory Management, automated stock replenishment etc.
    Content management system (CMS)
    Human resources (HR)
    People and Group Management
    Project Management
    Sales Force Automation
    Work Effort Management
    Electronic point of sale (ePOS)
    Electronic commerce (eCommerce)
    Scrum (development) (Scrum software development support)

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Movable Type

Movable Type is a weblog publishing system developed by the company Six Apart. It was publicly announced on September 3, 2001; version 1.0 was publicly released on October 8, 2001. On 12 December 2007, Movable Type was relicensed as free software under the GNU General Public License.The current version is 5.2.3.

Homepage :  www.movabletype.com

Features
Movable Type has several notable features, such as the ability to host multiple weblogs and standalone content pages, manage files, user roles, templates, tags, categories, and trackback links.

The application supports static page generation (in which files for each page are updated whenever the content of the site is changed), dynamic page generation (in which pages are composited from the underlying data as the browser requests them), or a combination of the two techniques. Movable Type optionally supports LDAP for user and group management and automatic blog provisioning.

Movable Type is written in Perl, and supports storage of the weblog's content and associated data within MySQL natively. PostgreSQL and SQLite support was available prior to version 5, and can still be used via plug-ins. Movable Type Enterprise also supports the Oracle database and Microsoft SQL Server.

Movable Type offers free software under the GPLv2 license. In addition to the free version, users can purchase support or buy commercial, education, or nonprofit licenses, which come with support contracts, author limits, and unlimited blogs.

It's easier than ever to publish and share information with Movable Type. Movable Type makes it simple to manage entire websites, start new blogs, and build an engaged community of readers and customers.

• A single, unified software solution for building website and blogs
• An enhanced CMS
• A new theme mechanism
• Powerful Dashboard. Generate new websites or blogs from a single screen. View a summary of website and blog activity in one glance.
• WYSIWYG Editor. Makes it easy to create great-looking pages and posts.
• Universal Template Set. Create and deploy blogs or standalone websites.
• New Theme Mechanism. Apply a theme with a single click and then rebuild the blog/website to apply changes to published website.
• Template Based Output. Easily match your blog with your existing brand identity.
• Manage, archive and search media assets. The Movable Type asset manager makes it easy to upload media assets of all types - images, video, audio and more.
• User Dashboard. Manage websites or blogs you are authorized to manage.
• Revision History. See revisions for entries, pages, and templates.
• Custom Fields. Available for Website, Blog, Comment, Template, Asset, Entry, Page, Category, Folder, and User.
• Asset Manager. Easily manage files and media assets from a single screen.
• Member Profiles. Allow members to create profiles to build connections.
• Simultaneous Registration and Commenting. Makes it easy for readers to interact.
• Local Authentication & OpenID Support. Powerful authentication options.
• Turn Visitors into Members. Choose to allow visitors to become members.
• Recommendations. Allow readers to recommend content and comments they like.
• Community Buzz. Show which comments and content have been recommended.
• Build a Vibrant Community Around Your Existing CMS or Website.
• TrackBack, on the platform that invented it. Easily manage and use TrackBacks.
• Member Registration and Authentication. Lower comment spam risk with membership.
• Email Verification. Simple email verification for comment authentication.
• Comment Control. Choose from three layers of comment control.
• Comment Reply from Within the Application. Manage comments from one page.
• Feedback Notifications. Be notified of comments or TrackBacks via RSS or email. audience.
• Built in RSS. Enable visitors to subscribe to your content feed in a single click.
• Tags, Tag Search and Tag Clouds. Create an unlimited number of tags.
• Search Result Feed Subscription. Create feeds based on any search term.
• Built-in Search. Place a built-in search bar directly on your blog.
• Localization and Internationalization. Make content accessible to an international audience.
• User Roles. Create pre-defined roles from collections of permissions.
• Delegation of Blog Management. Choose blog-specific user permission management.
• Disabling User Accounts. Disable user accounts or block a user's login access.
• Administrator Control over Entry and Listing Screen Display Defaults.
• Activity Log. View detailed information about all activity in the system.
• Multiblog Aggregation. Planet-style aggregation or selective aggregation.
• Scalability. Movable Type can accommodate high volumes and large readerships.
• Rebuild Queue The Movable Type asset manager makes it easy to upload media assets of all types - images, video, audio and more.
• TypePad AntiSpam. Built-in spam protection adapts to changing spam tactics.

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eZ Publish

eZ Publish is an Enterprise Content Management platform with an easy to use Web Content Management System. Typical applications range from a personal homepage to a multilingual corporate website, which include role-based multi-user access, e-commerce functions and online communities.

eZ Publish (pronounced "easy publish") is an open source enterprise PHP content management system developed by the Norwegian company eZ Systems. eZ Publish is freely available under the GNU GPL version 2 license, as well as under proprietary licenses that include commercial support.

Homepage: ez.no

eZ Publish supports the development of customized web applications. Typical applications range from a personal homepage to a multilingual corporate website, which include role-based multi-user access, e-commerce functions and online communities.

The software is widely used in web applications of varying type and size worldwide, among them MIT (specifically the controller's office), Vogue magazine, the US Navy DASN and the Swiss public broadcasting organisation Schweizer Fernsehen.

Dual-licensing

The software is provided for free, and may be used and modified according to the GPL. In addition, paid professional support is available with the eZ Publish Enterprise Edition. Furthermore, a commercial license is also available, granting the right to use eZ Publish under license conditions different from the GPL.

To support its commercial operations, eZ Systems has a network of certified partner companies that perform application implementations. Currently there are approximately 200 partners worldwide. The company itself employs about 110 people in Norway, Denmark, France, United States, Germany and Japan. The eZ community, composed of programmers, designers and users can be found at the eZ Community site.

Technology

eZ Publish is written in PHP. The recommended web server is Apache. Some alternatives, such as Lighttpd, Hiawatha, Cherokee, are fully functional and lightweight.

The database abstraction layer enables the use of most common databases, i.e. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle, without changes to the core system, by using drivers.

The software is cluster-ready and enforces the separation of content and presentation via XML storage of all content.

eZ Publish features

•     User defined content classes and objects
•     Role based permissions system
•     Template engine
•     Version control
•     Workflow management and task system
•     Image conversion and scaling
•     Database abstraction layer
•     Multi-lingual support, with Unicode
•     libraries for XML, SOAP, localization and internationalization
•     Search engine support

eZ Components is a library of standardized modules for speeding up application development. It includes functions for compressing binary files, optimizing performance through caching, connecting to several databases, debugging, RSS, generating graphs for analysis, converting images, supporting email and validating user input.

In an effort to transition the development from a company-driven to a community-driven model, the whole source of the eZ Components were donated to the Apache Software Foundation, relicensed from the BSD to the Apache 2 license and renamed to Zeta Components.

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EnanoCMS

EnanoCMS is a lightweight content management system. It includes powerful administrative capabilities and a variety of plugins to add portals, forums, blogs, and other features.

Homepage: enanocms.org

Features

From the reliable and solid core to its beautiful, responsive user interface, Enano has everything you expect from today's content management framework. We decided to put only a basic set of features in to the core and leave the remainder up to the various plugins that are available. Some of the features in the core are:

• No-nonsense administration - Many CMSes organize their administration interfaces using drop-down menus or icons. Enano's administration menu has less than 20 sections, and all of them are well-organized so you can quickly find what you're looking for.
• Forget hunting through the manual - Most options in the administration panel are fully explained right on the page. We believe this is a better way to explain a button's function because you don't have to search for the answer in the documentation. With Enano, help is always at your fingertips.
• Set it up, fast - We think Enano's installer is one of the smartest around. The Enano installation wizard is heavily optimized for easy keyboard navigation, fast verification of database options, and of course a reliable installation.
• Full user management - The session manager in Enano is designed to provide a simple security model that is friendly to developers.
• Add features easily - Since the first beta released in September 2006, Enano provides support for plugins that can add features or replace existing major subsystems. For the casual administrator, this means that you can change and enhance your site without modifying and patching Enano system files, making upgrades a snap. For developers, this means setting up plugins is as easy as writing a single PHP file and enabling the plugin in the administration panel.
• Released early, released often - New versions of Enano are released regularly, so when bugs or security problems are found, fixes are available quickly.
• Take feedback - Users can leave comments on articles using an extremely streamlined AJAX-based flat style discussion system. And you can include wiki-formatted text and smilies in comments. Visual confirmation powered by freeCap ensures that you don't have to deal with spam.
• Speaking of AJAX - Most other Enano functionality uses AJAX too! Editing, renaming, restoring, and deleting pages are all possible using the on-page AJAX controls. For users with older browsers, most Enano functionality is also implemented using HTML forms, so users with legacy browsers can still use your site.
• Fully skinnable - Enano supports templates and swappable CSS files, so you can design themes and include alternate layouts or color schemes. You can also embed PHP code into most templates, allowing custom logic and plugin-like functionality.
• Search engines just love it - Using the easily configurable mod_rewrite support, you can have a heavily search engine-optimized site in seconds. Most Enano themes also follow the W3C's recommendations on heading usage, so search engines know what content to display.
• Protected against attacks - Enano's security model acts as a blanket around sensitive functions. Heuristic analysis of SQL queries ensures that if an SQL injection vulnerability exists, it is much more difficult to exploit. Even with the heavy protection, Enano's security never gets in your face. When further authentication is needed, you can authenticate using a beautiful AJAX-based login interface.
• File upload support - In addition to storing articles, Enano supports uploading files. images can even be embedded into pages and scaled to thumbnail size with ImageMagick and GD support. (GD support added in Enano 1.1)
• Password-protected pages - You can require a password for individual pages to be viewed with this feature.
• Wiki features, but only where you want them - While Enano is perfectly good as a wiki, sometimes you'll want a core set of pages that don't act like a wiki at all. Selective Wiki Mode allows you to enable or disable wiki features only on certain parts of your site. For even more flexible selection, try the page grouping system, which lets you build large groups of pages that share a common set of permissions.
• We're paranoid about security too - On a public WiFi network and scared of hackers stealing your login information? With Enano you don't have to worry. When you log into an Enano-based site, your password and session key are encrypted with military-strength 192-bit AES. Enano 1.1 uses the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol to negotiate a key, strengthening the login process even more.
• Fine grained access controls - Enano's access control list system allows highly specific control over who has access to what parts of your site. User groups and page groups allow centralized administration of access settings, and smart precedence logic ensures that more specific rules are given higher priority.
• It's all about freedom - The biggest benefit of using Enano is the rights you get with it. We believe that everyone should have the legal right to download, use, modify, and distribute software. This is why we decided to release Enano under the GNU General Public License version 2. Enano will always be free to download and use, and we encourage you to create your own remix and share it with others.

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OcPortal

ocPortal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and based on a MySQL backend database. The software has been developed by British software developer Chris Graham since 2004, with contributions from programmers Chris Warburton, Paul Duffy and Philip Withnall, and designers Allen Ellis and Robert Goacher.

Homepage: ocportal.com

ocPortal is a content management system that supports many types of content, such as galleries, news and newsletters and allows you to integrate rich media and advertising into them. Community features include forums, member blogs, chat rooms, wiki, and content commenting/rating.

Features

ocPortal has a number of features which can be included when installing the software or added later. Some of those features are:

•     Self extracting installer option
•     Automatic Site map Generation
•     Support for short URLs
•     Highly Web standards compliant, see more information below
•     Theme Wizard
•     Rich Media Support
•     Social Media Syndication
•     RSS & Atom Support
•     Media Galleries including optional watermarking
•     News & Newsletters
•     Forums
•     Shopping Cart & e-commerce functionality
•     Customisable Pages
•     Web Banners
•     Images of the day option
•     Site statistics and analytics support
•     Downloads
•     Calendar
•     Quizzes and Surveys
•     Points store
•     Search functionality
•     Support ticket support
•     External software integration support
•     Polls – Simple voting system by users
•     Catalogues for Links & FAQs etc.
•     CEDI (Structured Wikis)
•     Blogs
•     Chat Rooms, Instant Messaging & Shout-out boxes
•     Multi-site network support including shared membership
•     Multiple User group support and customisation
•     Control of user privileges
•     Unique Realtime "Rain" visual usage tracker

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Radiant

Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams.

Radiant features:

• An elegant user interface
• Flexible templating with layouts, snippets, page parts, and a custom tagging language
• A first-class extension/plugin system
• Simple user management and permissions

 Homepage: radiantcms.org

Radiant is a content management system designed for small teams. It includes a simple administrative interface, flexible layouts and site structure, a macro language that makes it easy to include content from other pages and more.

Simple Admin InterfaceBuilt from the ground up to be as simple as possible, Radiant features an elegant administrative interface that centers around three key components: pages, snippets, and layouts.

PagesPages contain the meat of the content for a Web site and may use Markdown, Textile, or plain HTML. Pages are composed of multiple parts such as a body and sidebar.

SnippetsContent that is used in multiple places can be stored in a snippet. Snippets are very similar to PHP includes or Rails partials.

LayoutsLayouts generally contain most of the HTML for a page’s design. Layouts can render pages parts in any way they choose. One layout could choose to render the body and sidebar of a page, while another layout (a print layout) could render only the body.

Flexible Site StructureUnlike many other blogging engines Radiant allows you to arrange pages according to any hierarchy. A Weblog in Radiant can be as simple as a collection of child pages underneath a parent page.

Radius Template LanguageRadiant has a special macro language (similar to HTML) called Radius which makes it easy to include content from other pages, iterate over page children, and display content conditionally. Radius tags are available in pages, snippets, and layouts.

Custom Text FiltersRadiant ships with support for Markdown and Textile, but developers can easily create text filters for any markup language such as RDoc, BBCode, or Structured Text.

Intelligent Page CachingRadiant includes an intelligent caching mechanism which allows content to be cached for a maximum of 5 minutes. This ensures that content is always fresh and provides an optimal level of performance.

Built with Ruby on RailsRadiant is built using Ruby on Rails. This means it’s easy for developers to extend Radiant because it’s built on a widely accepted (and understood) Web application development platform.

Licensed Under the MIT LicenseRadiant is licensed under the MIT License. This means that Radiant is free for commercial and non-profit use. It also means that you are free to modify and distribute Radiant as long as you don’t remove the appropriate notices from the source code.

Radiant is a free software content management system written in Ruby created and designed by John W. Long as a Ruby on Rails web application. While suitable for the non-technical user, it also provides elements for more advanced users.

Radiant has a light weight core library with "extensions" providing additional customised functionality. Because extensions do not modify the core, upgrading is simplified; With over 200 extensions in the extension registry it can be adapted for a range of uses including membership management. All the content is stored inside a database. It is possible to use MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite. Radiant depends, like every Ruby on Rails application, on the installed adapters for the database.

It is distributed via a separate download or installable with RubyGems.Two PHP ports of Radiant CMS are available as Frog CMS and Wolf CMS.Radiant includes by default 2 extensions. one Textile and other is Markdown.

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Concrete5

concrete5 is an open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets.concrete5 CMS is a content management system that allows you to deploy web applications, websites, stores and forums and easily manage their content and site structure. concrete5 powers hundreds of thousands of sites around the world.

Homepage: concrete5.org

Concrete5 was designed for ease of use, for users with a minimum of technical skills. It enables users to edit site content directly from the page.It provides version management for every page, similar to wiki software, another type of web site development software. concrete5 allows users to edit images through an embedded editor on the page.

Code

Concrete5 code is based on Model-View-Controller architecture an object-oriented programming. Some core features are: integrated server caching, developer API, optional openID, version tracking system, and search engine optimization.

Features

Concrete5 features in-context editing (the ability to edit website content directly on the page, rather than in an administrative interface or using web editor software). Editable areas are defined in concrete5 templates which allow editors to insert 'blocks' of content. These can contain simple content (text and images) or have more complex functionality, for example image slideshows, comments systems, lists of files, maps etc. Further addons can be installed from the concrete5 Marketplace to extend the range of blocks available for insertion. Websites running concrete5 can be connected to the concrete5 website, allowing automatic upgrading of the core software and of any addons downloaded or purchased from the Marketplace.concrete5 is Free and Open Source (FOSS) under the MIT software license.

What can you build with concrete5?

•     Online magazines and newspapers.
•     eCommerce sites.
•     Extranets and Intranets.
•     Government web sites.
•     Small business web sites.
•     Non-profit and organization web sites.
•     Community-based portals.
•     Church, club and team web sites.
•     Personal or family homepages.
•     Marketing focused sites for a corporation.
•     Any school, college or university web site.
•     Many online communities.
•     Anything else you can dream up.

Awards and recognition

• SourceForge's "Project of the Month" October 2008.
• In the 2010 Open Source CMS Market Share Report, Concrete5 had:
• Growth of developer share: the largest growth of any system in the Developer Support metric
• Installations: Though Concrete5 was only #12 in weekly downloads, they showed the most year-on-year improvement of any system in the survey - up 517%. The system also came in at #3 in total installations, as per the survey -- up from #10 last year. Installation data from the survey was also validated by the BuiltWith data which showed Concrete5 in 7th position
• Third Party Support: Concrete5 showed a second year of strong growth in the Developer Support metric.
• Search Engine Visibility: The project site showed the largest gain of any system in the survey for the second year running.
• Project Site Popularity: Concrete5 showed the second largest increase in Alexa Internet rank.
• Mindshare: Concrete5 placed last in Brand Familiarity in 2009; in 2010, the system came in 6th.
• Reputation: Concrete5 led the group in brand sentiment, abandonment and product preference, and came in second in conversion rate.
• In the 2011 Open Source CMS Market Share Report, though Concrete5 still lagged Drupal, Joomla and WordPress in terms of total market share, it had the highest growth.

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Open Atrium

Open Atrium is designed to help teams collaborate by providing an intranet platform that includes a blog, a wiki, a calendar, a to do list, a shoutbox, and a dashboard for managing it.

Open Atrium is an open source platform designed specifically to make great teams communicate better. An intranet in a box with: a blog, a wiki, a calendar, a to do list, a shoutbox, and a dashboard to manage it all. Let’s not forget that it’s also completely customizable.

Homepage: openatrium.com

Open Atrium is a part of a growing open source offering helping commercial companies, international organizations, federal governments, and online publishers grow their enterprise platforms with excellent team communications tools. Open Atrium is powered by an active community, and it's working. Open Atrium is now being translated into more than twenty languages and several hundred people are growing its base of features. Together we are developing the most advanced knowledge management tools for team collaboration.

Features

• Blog : Share ideas and receive email notifications when others post.
• Notebook : Collaborate on documents, compare revisions, and print when you're done.
• Case Tracker : Create and manage projects within each of your groups.
• Calendar : Add events and pull in feeds from other calendars.
• Shoutbox : Share messages and links with just the people in your group.
• Dashboard : See a snapshot of all the activity across your groups.
• Themes : Customize the look and feel of Open Atrium.

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Plone

Plone is an open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. Plone can be used for all types of websites, including blogs, internet sites, webshops and internal websites.

Plone is a free and open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. In principle, Plone can be used for any kind of website, including blogs, internet sites, webshops and internal websites. It is also well positioned to be used as a document publishing system and groupware collaboration tool. The strengths of Plone are its flexible and adaptable workflow, very good security, extensibility, high usability and flexibility.

Homepage: plone.org

Plone is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and is designed to be extensible. Major development is conducted periodically during special meetings called Plone Sprints. Additional functionality is added to Plone with Products, which may be distributed through the Plone website or otherwise. The Plone Foundation holds and enforces all copyrights and trademarks. Plone also has legal backing from the council of the Software Freedom Law Center.

MediaWiki's "Monobook" layout is based partially on the Plone style sheets. High-profile public sector users include the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Brazilian Government, United Nations, City of Bern (Switzerland), New South Wales Government (Australia), and European Environment Agency.

Plone is among the top 2% of all open source projects worldwide, with 340 core developers and more than 300 solution providers in 57 countries. The project has been actively developed since 2001, is available in more than 40 languages, and has the best security track record of any major CMS.
It is owned by the Plone Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, and is available for all major operating systems.

DesignPlone runs on the Zope application server, which is written in Python. Plone by default stores all information in Zope's built-in transactional object database (ZODB). It comes with installers for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, along with other operating systems. New updates are released regularly on Plone's website. Plone is available in over 35 languages. Its interface conforms to WCAG-AAA[citation needed] and U.S. section 508, which allows people with disabilities to properly access and use Plone. A major part of Plone is its use of skins and themes. When working with Plone, templates can be used to customize a website's look. These templates are written with Cascading Style Sheets. In addition, Plone comes with a user management system called Pluggable Authentication Service. Introduced in Plone 2.5, "PAS" is used to properly sort actions from different users to their respective folders or accounts. PAS is also used to search for users and groups in Plone. Most importantly, PAS covers the security involved for users, requiring authentication in order to login to Plone. This gives users an increase in both security and organization with their content. A large part of Plone's changes have come from its community. Since Plone is open source, the members of the Plone community regularly make alterations or add-ons to Plone's interface, and make these changes available to the rest of the community via Plone's website.

The name Plone comes from a band by that name and "Plone should look and feel like the band sounds".

LanguagesPlone is mainly developed in Python. However, there are other languages used within the project. Here is a table that summarizes the languages used in Plone, as it appears at the latest website:

    Python: 55%
    JavaScript (including the jQuery JavaScript framework): 32%
    XML: 11%
    Other (CSS, XSLT, etc.): 2%

Strengths and weaknesses

A 2007 comparison of CMSes rated Plone highly in a number of categories (standards conformance, access control, internationalization, aggregation, user-generated content, micro-applications, active user groups and value). (However, as most of the major CMSes, including Plone, Drupal, WordPress and Joomla, have undergone major development since then, only limited value can be drawn from this comparison.) Plone is available on many different operating systems, due to its use of platform-independent underlying technologies such as Python and Zope. Plone's Web-based administrative interface is optimized for standards, allowing it to work with most common web browsers, and uses additional accessibility standards to help users who have disabilities. All of Plone's features are customizable, and free add-ons are available from the Plone website.

Plone enjoys an excellent security record compared to other popular content management systems. This security record has led to widespread adoption of Plone by government and non-government organizations, including the FBI.

Plone has been rated as lagging in repository services when compared to other major CMSs.

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Tiki

Tiki is a full-featured, multilingual content management system and wiki platform. In addition to enabling websites and portals, Tiki contains a number of collaboration features allowing it to operate as a Geospatial Content Management System (GeoCMS) or Groupware web application.

Homepage: info.tiki.org

Tiki is the Free and Open Source Web Application with the most built-in features. So whatever feature you can imagine running in your browser window, chances are Tiki does it.

• Knowledge base: Wiki, FAQs, File gallery, Photo Album, Tags, Search, Kaltura video management integration, etc.
• Collaboration/Project Management: Wiki, Forums, Tasks, Permissions, Timeline, Proposals/Votes, Blog, Categories, Watch, etc.
• Publishing/web site: News articles, Blog, RSS, Newsletter, Maps, Themes, Banners, WYSIWYG, SEO, etc.
• Commerce: Shopping Cart, Payment, Membership, Credits, Accounting, etc.
• Social networking/Community: Friends, Maps, Inter-user messages, Surveys, Polls, Chat, Share link, Comments, Calendar, etc.
• CRM / Help Desk: User database, membership, Bug & issue trackers, polls, etc.
• Office suite: Wiki, Spreadsheet, Slideshow, Drawings, Database (trackers) and Reports, etc.
• Personal Information Management (PIM): Calendar, Webmail, Address book, Notepad, Time Sheet, etc.
• E-learning: Quizzes, Slideshow, BigBlueButton webinar integration, etc.
• Framework: App builder (forms & reports), Workflow, Profiles, Advanced wiki syntax, etc.

Marc Laporte, a long-time Tiki Administrator and Tiki Community Software Association board member is interviewed for the 146th FLOSS Weekly netcast, with Randal Schwartz and Simon Phipps, current President of the Open Source Initiative (OSI)

Tiki has all these features built-in and optional so you can pick just what you need now and activate more as your needs evolve.
 

Underlying technologies:

•     PHP scripting language
•     MySQL or MariaDB database
•     Smarty template engine
•     jQuery JavaScript library
•     Zend Framework

Tiki is under active development by a large international community of over 300 developers and translators, and is one of the largest open-source teams in the world. Project members have donated the resources and bandwidth required to host the Tiki.org website and various subdomains. The project members refer to this dependence on their own product as "eating their own dogfood", which they have been doing since the early days of the project.Tiki community members also participate to various related events such as WikiSym and the Libre Software Meeting.

Implementation
Tiki is developed primarily in PHP with some JavaScript code. It uses MySQL as a database. It will run on any server that provides PHP 5, including Apache and Microsoft's IIS.

Tiki components make extensive use of other open source projects, including Zend Framework, Smarty, jQuery, HTML Purifier, FCKeditor, Raphaël, phpCAS, and Morcego. When used with Mapserver Tiki can become a Geospatial Content Management System.

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Alfresco

Alfresco is an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system featuring document management, web content management, collaboration management, records management and image management.

Alfresco is an enterprise content platform that you can use in the cloud or behind your firewall. It helps you store and share the documents that every business depends on. Alfresco is built for the portability of the tablet and the power of the cloud.

Homepage: www.alfresco.com

Today’s companies are more mobile and more collaborative than ever. Now you can work anywhere, with anyone, on any device—all connected by the cloud. In other words, Alfresco makes sure you have your content wherever you are.

Alfresco is a free/libre enterprise content management system for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems. 

Alfresco comes in three flavors:

• Alfresco Community Edition is free software, LGPL licensed open source and open standards.
• Alfresco Enterprise Edition is commercially & proprietary licensed open source, open standards and enterprise scale. Its design is geared towards users who require a high degree of modularity and scalable performance.
• Alfresco Cloud Edition (Alfresco in the cloud) is the SaaS version of Alfresco.

Alfresco includes a content repository, an out-of-the-box web portal framework for managing and using standard portal content, a CIFS interface that provides file system compatibility on Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems, a web content management system capable of virtualizing webapps and static sites via Apache Tomcat, Lucene indexing, and Activiti workflow. The Alfresco system is developed using Java technology.

History

John Newton (co-founder of Documentum) and John Powell (a former COO of Business Objects) founded Alfresco Software, Inc. in 2005. Its investors include the investment firms SAP Ventures, Accel Partners and Mayfield Fund. The original technical staff consisted of principal engineers from Documentum and from Oracle.

While Alfresco's product initially focused on document management, in May 2006 the company announced its intention to expand into web content management by acquiring senior technical and managerial staff from Interwoven; this included its VP of Web Content Management, two principal engineers, and a member of its user-interface team. In 2007 Alfresco hired the principal sales engineer from Vignette.

In October, 2009, the 2009 Open Source CMS Market Share Report described Alfresco as a leading Java-based open source web content management system.

In 2010, Alfresco sponsored a new open-source BPM engine called Activiti.

In July 2011, Alfresco and Ephesoft announced a technology partnership to offer their users document capture and Content Management Interoperability Services brought together for intelligent PDF capture and search and workflow development.

In January 2012, Alfresco 4.0 was released with significant improvements over the user interface. The new Alfresco aims to move further features from Alfresco Explorer to Alfresco Share, as Alfresco Explorer is intended to be deprecated over time.

Usage

Enterprise content management for documents, web, records, images, and collaborative content development.
Features

Alfresco is capable of the following:

• Document management
• Web content management (including full webapp & session virtualization)
• Repository-level versioning (similar to Subversion)
• Transparent overlays (similar to unionfs)
• Records management, including 5015.2 certification
• Image management
• Learning content management support for learning management systems (e.g. Moodle)
• LOR Learning Object Repository (edu-sharing)
• Auto-generated XForms with AJAX support
• Integrated publishing
• Repository access via CIFS/SMB, FTP, WebDAV, NFS and CMIS
• Activities workflow
• Lucene search[6]
• Federated servers
• Multi-language support
• Portable application packaging
• Multi-platform support (officially Windows, GNU/Linux and Solaris)
• Browser-based GUI (official support for Internet Explorer and Firefox)
• Desktop integration with Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice.[7]
• Clustering support
• Pluggable authentication: NTLM, LDAP, Kerberos, CAS
• Multiple database support: MySQL, PostgreSQL (Community Edition), Oracle Database, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server (Enterprise Edition).

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Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.

Drupal is a content management platform that allows users to easily publish, manage, and organize a wide variety of content on a website. It is used for community web portals, discussion sites, corporate web sites, intranet applications and many other sites. Drupal is easy to extend by plugging in freely available modules.

Homepage: drupal.org

Drupal is a free and open-source content management framework (CMF) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.It is used as a back-end system for at least 2.1% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites including whitehouse.gov and data.gov.uk.It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration.

The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features common to content management systems. These include user account registration and maintenance, menu management, RSS feeds, page layout customization, and system administration. The Drupal core installation can be used as a brochureware website, a single- or multi-user blog, an Internet forum, or a community website providing for user-generated content.

As of January 2013, there are more than 20,100 free community-contributed addons, known as contributed modules, available to alter and extend Drupal's core capabilities and add new features or customize Drupal's behavior and appearance. Because of this plug-in extensibility and modular design, Drupal is described as a content management framework. Drupal is also described as a web application framework, as it meets the generally accepted feature requirements for such frameworks.

Although Drupal offers a sophisticated programming interface for developers, no programming skills are required for basic website installation and administration.

Drupal runs on any computing platform that supports both a web server capable of running PHP (including Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, Hiawatha, Cherokee or Nginx) and a database (such as MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, or Microsoft SQL Server) to store content and settings. Drupal 6 requires PHP 4.4.0 or higher, while Drupal 7 requires PHP 5.2.5 or higher.

Drupal is Open Source

Drupal is open source software maintained and developed by a community of 630,000+ users and developers. It's distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (or "GPL"), which means anyone is free to download it and share it with others. This open development model means that people are constantly working to make sure Drupal is a cutting-edge platform that supports the latest technologies that the Web has to offer. The Drupal project's principles encourage modularity, standards, collaboration, ease-of-use, and more.

Community Support

The passionate volunteer Drupal community is on hand to give support via various vibrant IRC channels, in the forums, and face to face at Drupal events. The community has also created Documentation for Drupal, which covers major topics related to working with Drupal. The worldwide community drives the innovation that makes Drupal the preferred choice for web developers and site owners. Everybody can get involved and make a difference to Drupal.

Drupal's History

Dries Buytaert began the Drupal software as a message board in 1999. Within a year or so, more people became interested using and contributing to Drupal, so the project was made open source. Drupal.org came online in 2001, and the Drupal community gained momentum in 2005 with several code sprints and conferences. Read more about the full history of Drupal and Druplicon.

Commercial Services

As well as the community, there are many dedicated companies in the Marketplace to help with your Drupal project. Providing expertise and a deeper understanding, they can help with design, development, hosting, spam blocking, theming, training, and more.

Technical Requirements

For Drupal , you need the following to get started:

    Web Server: Apache or Microsoft IIS
    PHP: 5.2 or higher
    Database Server: MySQL - 5.0 or higher, PostgreSQL - 8.3 or higher, or SQLite

Drupal is web-based, which means it is compatible with all operating systems.

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XOOPS

XOOPS is a Content Management System and a Web Portal program that allows administrators to easily create dynamic websites with great content and many outstanding features. It allows to develop small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more.

XOOPS is a free open source content management systems (CMS), written in PHP. It uses a modular architecture allowing users to customize, update and theme their websites. XOOPS is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and is free to use, modify and redistribute.

Homepage: xoops.org

XOOPS is an acronym of "eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System". Though started as a portal system, it later developed into a web application framework. It aims to serve as a web framework for use by small, medium and large sites, through the installation of modules. For example, a small XOOPS installation can be used as a personal weblog or journal, but this can be expanded upon and customized, i.e. users might add the appropriate modules (freeware and commercial) to store content in news, forums, downloads, and others.

Key features

• Community
• Because XOOPS is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) the growth and development of XOOPS is dependent on the contributions of a worldwide community effort.
• Database
• XOOPS uses a relational database (currently MySQL) to store data required for running a web-based content management system.
• Advanced access control layer
• Administrators have the ability to grant specific groups of users specific access rights to content and features such as edit, delete, upload, add attachments, publish content, and so on.
• Modularized
• Modules can be installed, uninstalled, activated, and deactivated using the module administration system.
• Core features usable by modules
• XOOPS possess a number of core features that can be used by modules like permissions, comments, notifications and blocks features.
• Personalization
• Administrators have the ability to set specific permissions for user access and control of individual elements of their websites.
• User Management
• The ability to search for users by various criteria, send email and private messages to users through a template-based messaging system.
• International language support
• The XOOPS community has official support sites for non-English-speaking users. Additionally XOOPS itself supports multi-byte character sets for languages that use characters not in the Latin alphabet, for example Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, etc. The multi-language support is also available on the PDF generation feature provided by the TCPDF library.
• Theme-based skinnable interface
• XOOPS uses themes for page presentation. Both administrators and users can change the look of the entire web site by selecting from available themes.
• Templates
• XOOPS uses the Smarty templating engine which allows many benefits such as easier separation between business logic and presentation logic as well as content caching.
• Built-in LDAP authentication
• Some SEO add-ons
• A number of XOOPS modules contain features to facilitate the indexing of a website in search engines, like metatags, title tags and occasionally some URL rewriting. However, XOOPS does not give its users full control over their URLs. Where URL rewriting is possible, XOOPS often uses redirects that may confuse search engines. In addition, some XOOPS modules create duplicate content by making the same information available on more than one URL while in other cases (especially in case of multilingual sites), several sets of content may be made available through the same URL.

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Joomla

Joomla is a Content Management System that can create everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications and allows users to manage each aspect of their website through a simple, browser-based interface. Users with basic word processing skills can add or edit content, update images, and to manage the critical data. Joomla also allows developers to create and include add-ons to further customize their site.

Joomla is a free and open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets and a model–view–controller (MVC) Web application framework that can also be used independently.

Homepage: www.joomla.org




Joomla is written in PHP, uses object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques (since version 1.5) and software design patterns, stores data in a MySQL or (since version 2.5) MS SQL database, and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization.

As of March 2012, Joomla has been downloaded over 30 million times. Over 6,000 free and commercial extensions are available from the official Joomla! Extension Directory, and more are available from other sources. It is estimated to be the second most used CMS on the Internet after WordPress.

History

Joomla was the result of a fork of Mambo on August 17, 2005. At that time, the Mambo name was trademarked by Miro International Pvt. Ltd., who formed a non-profit foundation with the stated purpose of funding the project and protecting it from lawsuits. The Joomla development team claimed that many of the provisions of the foundation structure went against previous agreements made by the elected Mambo Steering Committee, lacked the necessary consultation with key stakeholders and included provisions that violated core open source values.

Joomla developers created a website called OpenSourceMatters.org (OSM) to distribute information to users, developers, web designers and the community in general. Project leader Andrew Eddie wrote a letter that appeared on the announcements section of the public forum at mamboserver.com. A little more than one thousand people had joined OpenSourceMatters.org within a day, most posting words of encouragement and support, and the website received the Slashdot effect as a result. Miro CEO Peter Lamont gave a public response to the development team in an article titled "The Mambo Open Source Controversy — 20 Questions With Miro". This event created controversy within the free software community about the definition of "open source". Forums at many other open source projects were active with postings for and against the actions of both sides.

In the two weeks following Eddie's announcement, teams were re-organized, and the community continued to grow. Eben Moglen and the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) assisted the Joomla core team beginning in August 2005, as indicated by Moglen's blog entry from that date and a related OSM announcement. The SFLC continue to provide legal guidance to the Joomla project.

On August 18, Andrew Eddie called for community input on suggested names for the project. The core team indicated that it would make the final decision for the project name based on community input. The core team eventually chose a name that was not on the list of suggested names provided by the community. On September 22, the new name, "Joomla!," was announced. It is the anglicised spelling of the Swahili word jumla meaning "all together" or "as a whole " which also has a similar meaning in at least Arabic and Urdu. On September 26, the development team called for logo submissions from the community and invited the community to vote on the logo; the team announced the community's decision on September 29. On October 2, brand guidelines, a brand manual, and a set of logo resources were published for the community's use.

Joomla won the Packt Publishing Open Source Content Management System Award in 2006, 2007, and 2011.

On October 27, 2008, PACKT Publishing announced that Johan Janssens was the "Most Valued Person" (MVP), for his work as one of the lead developers of the 1.5 Joomla Framework and Architecture. In 2009 Louis Landry received the "Most Valued Person" award for his role as Joomla architect and development coordinators.

Deployment

Like many other popular web applications, Joomla can be run on a LAMP stack.

Many web hosts have control panels that allow for automatic installation of Joomla. On Windows, Joomla can be installed using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, which automatically detects and installs any missing dependencies, such as PHP or MySQL.

Joomla enjoys strong support on the web from hosts that specialize in or support it. Many web sites provide information on installing and maintaining Joomla sites.
 

Joomla templates

A Joomla template is a multifaceted Joomla extension which is responsible for the layout, design and structure of a Joomla powered website.[39] While the CMS itself manages the content, a template manages the look and feel of the content elements and the overall design of a Joomla driven website. The content and design of a Joomla template is separate and can be edited, changed and deleted separately. The template is where the design of the main layout for a Joomla site is set. This includes where users place different elements (components, modules, and plug-ins), which are responsible for the different types of content. If the template is designed to allow user customization, the user can change the content placement on the site, e. g., putting the main menu on the right or left side of the screen. There are many paid and free templates available on the internet.

Template components
 

Layout
The template is the place where the design of the main layout is set for a Joomla site. This includes where users place different elements (components, modules, and plug-ins), which are responsible for different types of content.
 

Color schemeUsing CSS within the template design, users can change the colors of the backgrounds, text, links or just about anything that they could using (X)HTML code.
 

Images and effectsUsers can also control the way images are displayed on the page and even create flash-like effects such as drop-down menus.
 

FontsThe same applies to fonts. The designs for these are all set within the template's CSS file(s) to create a uniform look across the entire site, which makes it easy to change the whole look just by altering one or two files rather than every single page.
 

Joomla extensionsJoomla extensions help extend the Joomla websites' ability. There are five types of extensions for Joomla!: Components, Modules, Plugins, Templates, and Languages. Each of these extensions handles a specific function.

Components: The largest and most complex extensions of them all; they can be seen as mini-applications. Most components have two parts: a site part and an administrator part. Every time a Joomla page loads, one component is called to render the main page body. Components are the major portion of a page because a component is driven by a menu item and every menu item runs a component.

Plugins: These are more advanced extensions and are, in essence, event handlers. In the execution of any part of Joomla, a module or a component, an event can be triggered. When an event is triggered, plugins that are registered with the application to handle that event execute. For example, a plugin could be used to block user-submitted articles and filter out bad words.

Templates: Describe the main design of the Joomla website and are the extensions that allow users to change the look of the site. Users will see modules and components on a template. They are customizable and flexible. Templates determine the “style” of a website.

Modules: Rendering pages flexibly in Joomla requires a module extension, which is then linked to Joomla components to display new content or new images. Joomla modules look like boxes – like the “search” or “login” module. However, they don’t require html to Joomla to work.

Languages: Very simple extensions that can either be used as a core part or as an extension. Language and font information can also be used for PDF or PSD to Joomla conversions.

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Liferay

Liferay delivers open source enterprise solutions for portals, publishing, content, and collaboration.
Liferay is a portal, web content management and collaboration software package. It includes social collaboration features such as a doc library, off-line document sync, internal messaging, online presence, chat, wiki server, blog server, and forums server.

Homepage: www.liferay.com

Enterprise.
Liferay, Inc. was founded in 2004 in response to growing demand for Liferay Portal, the market's leading independent portal product that was garnering industry acclaim and adoption across the world. Today, Liferay, Inc. houses a professional services group that provides training, consulting and enterprise support services to our clientele in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. It also houses a core development team that steers product development.
 
Open Source.
Liferay Portal was, in fact, created in 2000 and boasts a rich open source heritage that offers organizations a level of innovation and flexibility unrivaled in the industry. Thanks to a decade of ongoing collaboration with its active and mature open source community, Liferay's product development is the result of direct input from users with representation from all industries and organizational roles. It is for this reason, that organizations turn to Liferay technology for exceptional user experience, UI, and both technological and business flexibility.
 
For Life.Liferay, Inc. was founded for a purpose greater than revenue and profit growth. Each quarter we donate to a number of worthy causes decided upon by our own employees. In the past we have made financial contributions toward AIDS relief and the Sudan refugee crisis through well-respected organizations such as Samaritan's Purse and World Vision. This desire to impact the world community is the heart of our company, and ultimately the reason why we exist.

Liferay Portal is a free and open source enterprise portal written in Java and distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License and proprietary licenses. It is primarily used to power corporate intranets and extranets.

Liferay Portal allows users to set up features common to websites. It is fundamentally constructed of functional units called portlets. Liferay is sometimes described as a content management framework or a web application framework. Liferay's support for plugins extends into multiple programming languages, including support for PHP and Ruby portlets.

Although Liferay offers a sophisticated programming interface for developers, no programming skills are required for basic website installation and administration.

Liferay Portal is Java-based and runs on any computing platform capable of running the Java Runtime Environment and an application server. Liferay is available bundled with a servlet container such as Apache Tomcat.

Liferay Portal is a JSR-286 and enterprise portal which includes a suite of applications (e.g., Content Management System, blogs, instant messaging, message boards, etc.). 

It is distributed in two different editions:

• Liferay Portal Community Edition — A version with the latest features and support through the active community.
• Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition — A commercial offering that includes services including updates and full support. This release goes through additional quality assurance cycles and is usually available around 1 or 2 months after the Community Edition and comes under a non-free license.
• Liferay Social Office — A social collaboration suite for enterprises.

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