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eZ publish is a popular open source content management system (CMS) and development framework. Its development was started by Bård Farstad in 1999 while working for his own company eZ systems . Its infancy was a webshop for one of eZ's customers, in 2000 the first official version was released by eZ Systems under the GNU GPL license. It has since been developed, distributed, and supported by eZ systems with input and help from an active user and developer community. While the development has not forked there also exists a modified version called "edition pieserver".[1]
The software is based on the PHP and a database and webserver, such as PostgreSQL and Apache, which is the combination recommended by eZ systems. As such it is platform independent and can be used on Windows and several UNIX variants, and also database independent. If a specific database isn't supported, it is possible to write a driver without modifying any kernel code.
eZ publish allows the development of professional and customized internet solutions and dynamic web applications. It can be used to build anything from a personal homepage to a multinational corporate website with role based multiuser access, online shopping, discussion forums and other functionality. In addition, because of its nature of openness, eZ publish can be easily plugged into, communicate and coexist with existing IT-solutions.
It comes with a wide range of built-in features, which make it possible to develop professional, complex, secure and reliable solutions within a short amount of time. In addition to the built-in features, the system allows for extensions and custom modifications. Unlike many other content management systems, eZ publish delivers a flexible, generic solution with few limitations.
In addition to the GPL version, eZ systems also license the software with what they call a "professional license" which allow buyers to make and sell commercial software that is developed using and/or built upon eZ publish.
eZ publish is comparable in nature, features and functionality to CMS's such as MidgardContent management systems Midgard CMS is an Open Source Content management system built on the Midgard Framework. Features include web-based authoring WYSIWYG interfaces and configurable XML workflow system. The Midgard Content Management Framework was i and PloneScreenshot of default Plone install Plone is an extensible content management system written in the Python programming language based on the Zope. It can be used as an intranet and extranet server, a document publishing system, and a groupware tool for co, while it is the only one of them being listed on opensourcecms.com , probably because it is the only one that can easily be installed in a shared hosting environment. One of its drawbacks is that it is quite resource hungry.