Mambo & Ansearch cancels acquisition
As most of you interested people out there already know, alot of stuff has been happening since Mambo and Joomla split up not long ago. Among other things Mambo Foundation board member Martin Brampton decided to leave, and just hours after that the Foundation admitted to not yet having aquired the Mambo copyrights. After visiting mamboserver.com this morning, and after getting past the initial “we have a critical security error at line 245 in easytofindfile.php”-news bulletin, I found the following statement from Peter Lamont:
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Martin Brampton speaks up
Things are heating up on the Mamboserver forums. I was able to copy this text posted by Martin Brampton, former Mambo Foundation member, before it was deleted.
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CMS war!
I just set up a page that displays the pageview statistics of the five major open source CMS solutions: Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, Xoops and Typo3. As you can guess from the small thumbnail here, a couple of them are standing out from the rest of the pack. Check out CMS War! to see how your favourite is doing. In the near future I will be adding forum statistics from as many of these as possible too, so stay tuned.
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Mambo in trouble
It seems like the Mambo Foundation does not own the Mambo Trademarks after all. Mambo Communities Pty Ltd, the original owner of the Mambo forums, help site, development forge, the domain names and the new Mambo Developer Network, has been sold off by Peter Lamont to Ansearch Ltd, an Australian search engine and online media company. This was four months after Miro International Pty Ltd announced that it had transferred the intellectual property it held in Mambo to the Mambo Foundation. Subsequently, member of the Mambo Foundation Board, Martin Brampton, resigned from his position with immediate effect due to what “having become aware that the Board is acting unlawfully”.
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Joomla 1.5 beta postponed
Joomla 1.5 beta has been pushed back one month and is not due until the end of May most probably. I’ll write more as soon as I can get hold of some info on the topic. For now you can read the Joomla Roadmap.
Joomla 1.5 database schema
NEW: Looking for the Joomla 1.6 database schema?
It’s right here: Joomla 1.6 database schema.
Continue to read about the 1.5 schema
Joomla 1.5 beta is just around the corner now. Jinx has earlier stated that it would be released before may but we are yet to see if the core devs manage to keep their promise. As part of my involvement in the standards & guidelines group in Joomla, I set up a Joomla database schema to give 3rd party developers a clearer understanding as to how the core database is structured. Click the thumbnail to the right to see the full sized schema.
Download Joomla 1.5 database diagram (From April 2006. XML-format, for use with FabFORCE DBDesigner4)
The diagram also has column info expanded, so that you can see the column types (varchar, integer, etc). This makes the schema a bit messy, but this is a feature you easily can turn on/off in DBDesigner to make it more readable again.
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