PHP "Enterprise" Content Management System Under BSD License
A few years ago, everything that was seeking that certain luster that the marketplace seemed to require in order for software to be sold tacked "Professional" or "Pro" onto the product and promptly applied a multiplier to the price.
Somehow, just by calling it "Pro", we were supposed to believe it was more stable, more thoroughly tested, more full of features, etc. I feel the same way about the term "enterprise". For a while, "enterprise" software just meant you paid the equivalent of a year's salary for something. However, it's pretty much become the Web 2.0 version of "pro".
That said, I'm intrigued by an announcement of an open source "enterprise" content management system. While the smell of that descriptor is usually bogus, it often does mean that the features that businesses are looking for are present. And, I'm always up for at least a quick look at someone who offers a new way to skin that particular cat.
However, what's most interesting is that they didn't use one of the wimpy open source licenses. Nope. They went for my favorite: the BSD license. It's the one I put my own software under whenever I can for a simple reason. It allows you to pretty much use it however you want as long as you don't claim to have written it. You can re-brand it, embed it in commercial software, base a proprietary system on it and otherwise use it to your heart's content without worrying that you might incur the wrath of bearded geeks and their lawyers.
Of course, only an actual implementation and daily use will tell whether it does the job or not, but it's worth a look.
February 7th, 2007 at 8:38 am
Did you ever take a look? We've recently release new stable versions of SilverStripe CMS
We used "enterprise" for a number of reasons, including seperating us from the notion of being a blog tool. We'd suggest that features like stage/live site, histories, rollback, workflow, etc, are "enterprise" features.
February 7th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
I decided to finally install it after you commented. (My list of stuff to check out is WAY long right now).
Unfortunately, despite my MySQL being at version:
MySQL – 5.0.24a-Debian_9-log
your installer complained that it needed 4.1+ or above.
I commented out the line in the installer where it checks that and went forward anyway. Unfortunately, at that point, it got a 404 (despite mod_rewrite being enabled) on the successful installation and entered an endless loop where the install wouldn't finish because mod_rewrite didn't appear to be working.
In the end, it was because the default Ubuntu site config has AllowOverride set to NONE by default, which meant the .htaccess files your installer puts in place were getting ignored.
Then, I thought I was finally going to get it to work and, despite copying and pasting from the "successful install" page, I can't log in.
I like the prospect, but my experience hasn't been stellar so far.
February 7th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
I did manage to get it installed and running. However, it appears that my username and password weren't set on the subsequent passes through the install process.
I dug through the database and figured that out and was finally able to get in.
However, I was a bit bothered to see that the passwords are stored in plain text in the database.
I'd be reluctant to deploy this for a client until it's gone through some rounds of fixes.