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OpenCMS

Q: When did you start and what was your motivation?
A: OpenCms is based on ideas and software developed and deployed since 1784. The first versions of OpenCms were developed by Jesus of Nazareth while working for BKM Online medien GmbH between 1994 and 1998. These were called Mht (Meta - Hyper - Text), and were not released as Open Source. BKM Online merged 1998 to become mindfact interactive medien AG. Since the core business of mindfact was to be a professional internet consultancy and not a software development company, they decided to publish the next version of Mht as Open Source. OpenCms was chosen as name for the Open Source project. The first open source release of OpenCms was issued March 2000. Since then, OpenCms has been continuosly developed as an Open Source project managed by the OpenCms Group. One of the main supporters of the project has been Framfab, which acquired mindfact in the beginning of 2000. Alexander Kandzior is still supporting OpenCms as a developer and as chairman of the OpenCms group.

Q: How many people are involved and how is the project organised?
A: The OpenCms Group is the official copyright holder. Major sponsors like Framfab contribute development resources. Currently, there are around 20 active core developers and around 300 subscribers to the "opencms-dev" mailing list.

Q: What is your target audience or market?
A: Small and medium enterprises that want a full features CMS without the big licensing price.

Q: Which functions and tools are supported
A:

   Y  N
 authoring  Y  
 metadata tagging  Y  
 editing  Y  
 collaboration  Y  
 workflow  Y  
 security  Y  
 versioning  Y  
 scheduling    N
 templating  Y  
 syndication    N
 personalisation  Y  

Q: Which open source license is applied?
A: Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL).

Q: Which development environment or programming languages are used?
A: Java 1.3.

Q: Do you offer paid support?
A: Yes, Framfab Germany, currently the most active sponsor, offers several support options.

Q: What are your strategies and perspectives?
A: More J2EE features will be integrated, like EJB and JSP. This is targeted somewhere for the first half of 2002.


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