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Analsys & Opinion My Shout Ansearch acquires Mambo Communities
Analsys & Opinion My Shout Ansearch acquires Mambo Communities | Ansearch acquires Mambo Communities |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Tuesday, 04 April 2006 | |
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Mambo Communities was set up by Peter Lamont, one of the founding developers of the open source Mambo content management system, to service the growing community of Mambo users worldwide through its network of Mambo websites. The websites provide discussion forums, galleries of Mambo sites, news, documentation and Mambo related plug-ins and templates to assist software developers. “This acquisition is a part of the growth of our network of owned, licensed and third party websites. The agreement with Mambo Communities allows Ansearch to provide our search, directories and online media services to a new global audience,” said Dean Jones, CEO of Ansearch. “Ansearch will support the Mambo Open Source community by investing in resources to assist in the continued growth and success of Open Source software projects. We are committed to ensuring the Mambo Open Source community flourishes by providing development portals and sponsoring events for Mambo and its developers.” Peter Lamont, CEO of Mambo Communities Pty Ltd, said: “While open source software itself is free, it is universally accepted that it is imperative to have financially sound commercial support. The involvement of commercial enterprises like Ansearch ensures continued funding for future growth and development of open source projects around the world.” Mambo was orginally the content management system that powered iTWire. However, most of the members of the core Mambo development team resigned in August 2005 after a dispute with Mr Lamont and his company Miro over the direction and stewardship of future Mambo development. The breakaway core development team released a fork open source content management system called Joomla, which has won over many former Mambo devotees.
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