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OpenACS (Open Architecture Community System) is an advanced toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications. If you're thinking of building an @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ The OpenACS toolkit is based on the ArsDigita Community System. ArsDigita (now part of Red Hat, Inc.) kindly made their work available under the GPL, - making all of this possible. + making all of this possible.
“The ArsDigita Community System (ACS) is a toolkit of software that will help you build Web services with a collaborative dimension, @@ -39,10 +39,10 @@ to port ACS from Oracle to PostgreSQL, thus making it a fully open-source solution.
- OpenACS 5.0.0b1 is the next generation of the web toolkit. It's based on + OpenACS 5.0.0b2 is the next generation of the web toolkit. It's based on ACS 4, but no longer follows ArsDigita development. Unlike ACS (which required Oracle) and OpenACS 3.x (which required PostgreSQL), - OpenACS 5.0.0b1 allows you to use either database. It's also built in such + OpenACS 5.0.0b2 allows you to use either database. It's also built in such a way to allow enterprising hackers (in the good sense of the word) to extend it to other databases. Don Baccus leads the development and numerous developers and non-developers