R-I-P Mambo CMS

I read this a few days ago and though those customers that have been around over a year might enjoy the read.

A year ago, Mambo was a great CMS with a solid community and a large number of 3rd party developers contributing extensions. Today, it is struggling. IBM recently looked at open source content management systems and had this to say about Mambo, “The development path seemed confusing, and the future of this solution was not certain to us. Mambo’s development track is divided into several solutions. Miro is a commercial product and Joomla seems to be a new CMS spawned from Mambo.” And, “Mambo was very appealing from the ease of install and the UI, but the development track at the time was fractured and didn’t give us any confidence of support”.

The writer concludes:

After years of using Mambo and supporting it, this writer is moving on. Mambo has almost no 3PD contributions now that are under active development and safe to use. There is no defined development path, no roadmap, and no signs that anything is being developed. And it has no community. Goodbye Mambo, rest in peace.

I love to say - I told you all so :-)

read the full article
http://freemambo.wordpress.com/2006/07/22/rip-mambo-cms/