NYCPHP Meetup

[Mitch Pirtle]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:19:38 -0500, Edward J. Weinberg <nylug at q5comm.com> wrote:
> Why did you choose Mambo?  There are over 200 CMS projects, most of them
> open source, on Freshmeat.net.

I hadn't even heard of Mambo, as I dislike any application that is
tied directly to MySQL (or any other database, for that matter). As
such I had never looked at it.

I bumped into a couple developers last year in NYC, and when I saw the
admin interface I wanted to see more. When I saw what a huge 3rd party
developer community Mambo had, I started taking Mambo seriously. When
I witnessed how huge the community was, and how great the support was,
it was a done deal.

I demanded cvs access immediately, and after some arm-wrestling they
complied ;-)

All CMS have their flaws and idiosynchrasies, but the above things -
as well as the fact Mambo doesn't look like just another *Nuke - was
compelling enough for me to not only make the switch, but commit to
joining the community and dedicating significant time to make it
better.

-- Mitch