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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 @@ -29,21 +28,21 @@ their work available under the GPL, making all of this possible.
- “The ArsDigita Community System (ACS) is a toolkit of software + “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 + 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 5.0.0d is the next generation of the web toolkit. It's based on + OpenACS 5.0.0a1 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 5.0.0d allows you to use either database. It's also built in such + OpenACS 5.0.0a1 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
