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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 - enterprise-level web application, OpenACS is a solid, - proven foundation that will give you a 3-6 month - headstart. -
- OpenACS is also a collection of pre-built applications and
- services that you can use to build your web
- site/application. Through a modular architecture, OpenACS
- has packages for user/groups management, content
- management, e-commerce, news, FAQ, calendar, forums, bug
- tracking, full-text searching, and much
+
+ OpenACS (Open Architecture Community System) is an
+ advanced toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented
+ web applications. If you're thinking of building an
+ enterprise-level web application, OpenACS is a solid,
+ scalable framework for building dynamic content driven
+ sites.
+
+ OpenACS is a collection of pre-built applications and
+ services that you can use to build your web
+ site/application. Through a modular architecture, OpenACS
+ has packages for user/groups management, content
+ management, e-commerce, news, FAQs, calendar, forums, bug
+ tracking, full-text searching, and much
more.
-
- OpenACS relies on AOLserver, the
- free, multithreaded, scalable, Tcl-enabled,
- web/application server used by America On-Line for most of
- its web sites, and a true acid-compliant Relational
- Database Management System (RDBMS). Currently OpenACS
- supports PostgreSQL, an open source RDBMS, and
- Oracle. (read
- more)
-
- 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.
-
- “The ArsDigita Community System (ACS) is a toolkit of software
- that will help you build Web services with a collaborative dimension,
- ranging from knowledge management within companies to B2C ecommerce
- to product support and community among the customers. The software is
- free and open-source and has been tested in heavy use since
- 1995.” - Philip Greenspun
+
+ OpenACS relies on AOLserver, the
+ free, multithreaded, scalable, Tcl-enabled,
+ web/application server used by America Online for most of
+ its web sites, and a true ACID-compliant Relational
+ Database Management System (RDBMS). Currently OpenACS
+ supports PostgreSQL, an open source RDBMS, and Oracle and
+ is easily extensible to other databases which support a
+ comparable feature set.
+
+ The OpenACS toolkit is derived from the ArsDigita
+ Community System (ACS). ArsDigita (now part of Red Hat,
+ Inc.) kindly made their work available under the GPL,
+ making all of this possible.
+
+ The OpenACS project was born when Don Baccus, Ben Adida, and
+ others decided to port ACS from Oracle to PostgreSQL, thus
+ making it a fully open-source solution. With OpenACS 4,
+ Oracle and PostgreSQL support were combined in one code base
+ and with OpenACS 5, support for internationalization and
+ localization has been added.
+
+ A vibrant and productive community has sprung up around the
+ OpenACS software and there are many volunteer contributors
+ as well as a commercial companies able to provide support,
+ hosting, and custom development. Many of the production
+ users are actively funding and contributing work back to the
+ project. Formal, consensus driven governance has been
+ established (with semi-annual elections) which ensures the
+ project serves the needs of it's constituents.
- OpenACS was born when Don Baccus, Ben Adida, et al decided
- to port ACS from Oracle to PostgreSQL, thus making it a
- fully open-source solution.
-
- 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 5.0.0b2 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
- contribute from around the world.
-
- The OpenACS community would like to hear your comments and
- help you in your endeavors with the system. Stop by our
- web site and feel
- free to ask a question, post ideas or whatever.
-