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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 @@ -27,10 +27,30 @@ 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, + 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 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 5.0.0 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 5.0.0 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. -