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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 @@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ site/application. Through a modular architecture, OpenACS has packages for user/groups management, content management, e-commerce, news, FAQs, calendar, forums, bug - tracking, full-text searching, and much + tracking, full-text searching, and much more.
- OpenACS relies on AOLserver, the + OpenACS relies on AOLserver, the free, multithreaded, scalable, Tcl-enabled, web/application server used by America Online for most of its web sites, and a true ACID-compliant Relational @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
The OpenACS toolkit is derived from the ArsDigita Community System (ACS). ArsDigita (now part of Red Hat, - Inc.) kindly made their work available under the GPL, + Inc.) kindly made their work available under the GPL, making all of this possible.
The OpenACS project was born when Don Baccus, Ben Adida, and @@ -47,6 +47,6 @@
The OpenACS community would like to hear your comments and can help you in your endeavors with the system. Visit our - web site and feel - free to ask questions or provide feedback. + web site and feel + free to ask questions or provide feedback.