Mambo has changed it's name to Joomla! today. After the develpers of the award wining content management system Mambo has left the rights holder of Mambo, the australian company Miro, they established a new website and will release the first version of Joomla!, which will be version 1.0.0, soon. Project leader Andrew Eddie:

"This forthcoming release will be a celebration for everyone. It marks the continuation of one of the best open source software collaborations without commercial restraint or intervention. [...] Now the word is out and Joomla! has been born, we are focussed on continuing our award-winning work and taking the project to new heights."

You can find the new Joomla! website over at www.joomla.org

To be honest I think they just shot themselves in the foot.

Could you imagine telling a client that you will be running their site on Joomla?

Talk about jargon..

I guess Samba must've been taken, huh? ;)

Maybe, just maybe, the developers will now decide to support Unicode. Until such time, claims that this CMS is better than others are spurious, IMO.

The reasons we took this action are explained here: www.opensourcematters.org also a blog link: http://lonemamber.blogspot.com - independant.

.. now I better change my username ;)

Joomlaguy does have a nice ring to it. :)

Originally posted by SoftWareRevue
Joomlaguy does have a nice ring to it. :)

Feel free to do the honors... ;) Save me a ticket :)

I'm not sure about that name...

Perhaps this post will help you to see why we have chosen Joomla!
http://forum.opensourcematters.org/index.php/topic,2682.msg25191.html#msg25191


FYI Before we launched the new name Google have 10-15 entries for the word Joomla.. now.. see for youself ;)

Nice name , very unique and a bit fun.
May be that is stupid question, but who knows why on their site no
link on download it? Or I missed it ?

Joomla! 1.0 is yet to be released... very soon :)

Originally posted by Joomla!
Joomla! 1.0 is yet to be released... very soon :)

Is there any differences between Mambo and Joomla?

Originally posted by Tranix
Is there any differences between Mambo and Joomla?

See the FAQ's: http://www.joomla.org/index.php?Itemid=44&option=com_faq&catid=7

Originally posted by Joomla!
See the FAQ's: http://www.joomla.org/index.php?Itemid=44&option=com_faq&catid=7

Thanks for the link Joomla. It seems like it's time to say goodbye Mambo :( . Anyway I have an idea for the newbie joomla.... If jommla can make the navigation menu on the left side would be great ;-) Another thing is moving the 'search' box and 'Latest News' to either left or right side, leave the topper for dropping down menu. The Lastest News can be made as blending or scrolling text.

just my 2cents! ;P

Tranix

Joomla!

I don't know if I like the thought of using software that is constantly shouting at me... This would also explain my disdain for Yahoo!.

Why not Mamboo!

Or how about FrimFram!

Here's one: StupidNameThatNobodyGetsWithoutAnExplanation!



And feel free to trademark that last one