phpBB

phpBB is a popular Internet forum package written in the PHP scripting language. The name “phpBB” is an abbreviation of PHP Bulletin Board. Available under the GNU General Public License, phpBB is a free software.

phpBB was started by James Atkinson as a simple UBB-like forum for his own website on June 17, 2000. Nathan Codding and John Abela joined the development team after phpBB’s CVS repository was moved to SourceForge.net, and work on 1.0.0 began. A fully functional, pre-release version of phpBB was made available in July.

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Simple Machines Forum

Simple Machines Forum (abbreviated as SMF) is a freeware Internet forum application. The software is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database backend, although multi-database support is being developed for version 2.0. SMF is developed by the Simple Machines development team.

SMF was created to replace the forum software YaBB SE, which at the time was gaining a bad reputation because of problems with its Perl-based ancestor software YaBB[citation needed]. At the time, YaBB was attributed to causing resource allocation problems on many systems. YaBB SE was written as a rough PHP port of YaBB, and had many of the same resource and security problems of the older YaBB versions. Joseph Fung and Jeff Lewis of Lewis Media Inc., the owners of YaBB SE and the original owners of SMF, made the decision to convert to a new brand and name.

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osCommerce

osCommerce (“open source Commerce”) is an e-commerce and online store-management software program. It can be used on any web server that has PHP and MySQL installed. It is available as free software under the GNU General Public License.

osCommerce was started in March 2000 in Germany by project founder and leader Harald Ponce de Leon as The Exchange Project. While osCommerce is still officially in its development stage, the current Milestone 2.2 release (Release Candidate 2a) is considered stable. As of August 2008 the osCommerce site says that there are over 14,000 ‘live’ websites using the program.  This number is almost certainly conservative, given the inclusion of osCommerce in hosting panel application installers such as Fantastico (web hosting) and its dependency on osCommerce users linking their sites into the osCommerce Live Stores listings.

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dotCMS

dotCMS is a free software / open source web content management system (wCMS) for building/managing websites, content and content driven web applications. dotCMS includes enterprise CMS features such as support for virtual hosting, WebDav (beta) ,structured content, clustering and can run on multiple databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL and Oracle, and is available as software that can be installed on a web server or via a hosting provider (dotMarketing is now offering the onDemand virtual hosting service for clients, and has also registered an image available via the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud). It also includes standard wCMS features features like page caching, advanced templating techniques, and a robust API. There are a number of features and modules in dotCMS, including RSS feeds, AJAX driven calendar, a built in reporting engine, news listing, blogs, forums, user tracking and tagging, built in search engine and language internationalization to name a few.

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