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.
Plone system resources for a small site
This article explains what kind of system resources are needed to run small Plone sites, specifically running a small site with few content objects and no dynamicity, e.g. a static company web site and not many hits.
Content management system Plone and its application server Zope are designed for scalability and flexibility, so fixed resource costs per Plone site might be high compared to other solutions (ASP, PHP).
Jadu Bridges the ‘Skills Gap’ Between PHP and .NET
Jadu, the Web Content Management vendor, has released a product that will help bridge the gap between PHP and .NET software development languages. The company’s Phalanger PHP compiler will allow PHP applications to be compiled into the .NET framework.
This new product from Jadu will help bridge the gap between .NET, a common application framework found in corporate environments, and PHP, the most popular web programming language found on open source web services on the Internet. As a result, companies should be able to shave off application development costs.
Microsoft Demonstrates an End-to-End Solution Portfolio for the Digital Content Life Cycle at IBC2008
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Sept 12, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — This week at the IBC2008 conference held at the Amsterdam RAI conference center, Microsoft Corp. will showcase the advanced media platform technologies and partner ecosystem that enable organizations to create, manage, deliver and monetize an endless variety of engaging digital entertainment experiences. Microsoft and its partners provide solutions to support the full content life cycle, including content creation and management, media business management and monetization, and digital content delivery.