Posts Tagged ‘ Squiz ’

acquia

Acquia is a company set up by Dries Buytaert, the guy who developed drupal, in an apparent attempt to get drupal taken more seriously by companies and institutions. The idea seems to be that Acquia (carrying on the water theme: druppel means ‘drop’ in Flemish) will provide commercial level support for drupal. When a company or institution [ READ MORE ]

The Squiz Licence

Squiz have developed what looks like a good CMS. They provide the software for free, but make their money out of support, design, and training. They also develop a number of extra modules, which they sell to non-educational and non-governmental clients. But because the software is free, it isn't necessarily truly open source. Their SSV licence (essential if you want to use the system to its full potential and do serious stuff with it) means Squiz end up owning any changes you might make. I'm no lawyer, but it even seems like any modules you might develop end up being theirs too. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, at least if you feel it's unlikely that you'd do a massive amount of development yourself. And it's important to know that any changes you do make end up being incorporated into the product, so other Matrix users benefit. It feels like a collaborative situation where everyone gains (including the finances of Squiz!). Is this bad? I don't think so[ READ MORE ]

MySource Matrix and Squiz

I’ve been looking recently at an open source enterprise CMS called MySource Matrix. It’s written in PHP5, and unusually for open source CMS actually seems to be able to cope well at enterprise level. It’s built from the ground up on an asset basis. Everything is an asset: users, content, permissions, workflow. The whole lot. This [ READ MORE ]

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