
A powerful, flexible, and robust content management system with state of the art features and functionality. Mia can be used for anything from small personal sites all the way up to large enterprise portals and e-commerce websites.

FlatPress is an open source, standard compliant, multi lingual extensible blogging engine which does not require a database to work.

BlogEngine.NET is an open source .NET blogging project that was born out of desire for a better blog platform. A blog platform with less complexity, easy customization, and one that takes advantage of the latest .NET features.

Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage.

Movable Type is a professional weblog publishing platform developed by the company Six Apart.

LightNEasy, a simple and light Content Management System and Website Builder. LightNEasy is not only a CMS, It actually creates plain, pure web pages for your whole website, making it SEO friendly and fast loading. Each time you add a page, alter the menus, it regenerates all pages again so that they remain fully integrated.

Web 2.0 News Portal is a small and friendly Web 2.0 application for publishing News and Blog posts.

Pixelpost is an open-source photoblog application for the web. It is standards-compliant, multi-lingual and fully extensible .

Habari is a “next-generation free software blogging patform” still in development but backed by some of the web’s most respected coders and developers. Habari will grow to be something special.

Nucleus CMS is an open-source blog management software package written in PHP, with a MySQL backend, it allows for multiple blogs and authors, easy publishing, commenting, RSS, archiving, search and more.

Textpattern is a flexible, elegant and easy-to-use content management system optimised for blogging. Like most CMS, it is coded in php and requires a mysql database for operations.

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

eFront is an easy to use, visually attractive, SCORM compatible, eLearning and Human Capital Development system. It is suitable for both company and educational usage.

Docebo is an e-Learning platform (LMS and LCMS) that supports 12 languages, is compliant to the SCORM 1.2 standard, and different didactic models. Including: Blended, Self-Directed, Collaborative and even Social Learning through Chat, Wiki, Forums etc.

Dokeos is a learning management system used in more than 600 companies and public administrations to manage e-learning and blended learning programmes.

Claroline is an Open Source eLearning and eWorking platform allowing teachers to build effective online courses and to manage learning and collaborative activities on the web.

Moodle is a course management system - an Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.

YetAnotherForum.NET (YAF) is a Open Source discussion forum or bulletin board system for web sites running ASP.NET. The latest version is ASP.NET v2.0 with a Microsoft SQL Server backend. The full C# source code is available licensed as GPL.

PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board. Its primary goals are to be faster, smaller and less graphically intensive as compared to other discussion boards.

MyTopix is a discussion forum poised to compete with some of the other players in the bulletin board market. It has all the features you need to get a community up and started quick and nothing that you don’t.

Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum software. It is extremely lightweight at only 386k! A perfect solution for a simple forum.

bbPress comes from the creators of Wordpress, it is forum software with a focus on web standards, ease of use, ease of integration, and speed.

phpBB was launched in 2000 and has become one of the standard Open Source forums used worlwide. It has a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface.

Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It is not a digital library but a tool for building digital libraries. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM in the form of a fully-searchable, metadata-driven digital library.

Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base.

A powerful, flexible, and robust content management system with state of the art features and functionality. Mia can be used for anything from small personal sites all the way up to large enterprise portals and e-commerce websites.

Diferior (different + superior) is a multi purpose CMS that comes with all the necessary tools to easily publish and organize content on the Net. It is capable of distributing files via BitTorrent, HTTP and FTP protocols, has built-in forums, a sophisticated user system and more.

Umbraco is an Open Source CMS based on the ASP.NET framework with cross browser support and a rich feature set for developers, editors and designers.

OpenCms is an open source content management system based on Java and XML technology. The fully browser based user interface features configurable editors for structured content with well defined fields.

TutorialMS is a content management system that helps webmasters index and manage tutorials (written by them or by another site). It is designed so users can easily find the tutorial(s) they are looking for.

LightNEasy, a simple and light Content Management System and Website Builder. LightNEasy is not only a CMS, It actually creates plain, pure web pages for your whole website, making it SEO friendly and fast loading. Each time you add a page, alter the menus, it regenerates all pages again so that they remain fully integrated.

TYPO3 is a free Open Source content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules.

Web 2.0 News Portal is a small and friendly Web 2.0 application for publishing News and Blog posts.

CMS Made Simple provides a fast and easy way to create a web site and manage its contents. Integrate blogs, forums, polls, shopping carts and much more with this comprehensive, hands on CMS.

Symphony is a web publishing system for web developers in XML and XSLT. It is customisable and flexible and can be used for anything from a publishing environment to organising your website’s url structure.

Plone is an open source CMS suited for an internal website or may be used as a server on the Internet, playing such roles as a document publishing system and groupware collaboration tool.

e107 is a CMS written in PHP and using the popular open source MySQL database system for content storage. It’s completely free, totally customisable and in constant development.

Joomla! probably has the largest userbase for a CMS System. It is used to power everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Easy to install and manage, it has a vast amount of templates and plugins.

Drupal is an open source content management platform with a powerful range of features that supprt a variety of websites from personal blogs to large community-driven websites.

TWiki is a sophisticated but easy to use structured wiki. With many available plugins, it allows end users to create their own web applications without needing to know how to program. Written in Perl, TWiki is typically deployed in enterprises.

Deki Wiki is an easy to use and sophisticated wiki for authoring, aggregating, organizing, and sharing content. Deki Wiki is also a platform for creating collaborative applications, or adding wiki capabilities to existing applications.

PmWiki is a cross-platform wiki-based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites written in the PHP coding language.

WikkaWiki is a flexible, standards compliant and lightweight wiki engine written in PHP, which uses MySQL to store pages. Designed for speed, extensibility, and security.

DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies.

MediaWiki is the information sharing software package that Wikipedia is built on. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis besides.
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