Addition of popular Open Source CMS widens choice for content, website, and blog management
HOUSTON, May 26, 2009 — click2try(TM) (http://www.click2try.com) today announced that it has added XOOPS Dynamic Web CMS version 2.3.3 (http://www.xoops.org) to its online catalog of virtualized Open Source applications. A Community site, click2try enables users to try applications for free and use by subscription.
XOOPS is a Web application platform written in PHP for the MySQL database. Designed with an object-oriented architecture, XOOPS is an ideal tool for developing small or large community Web sites, company intranets, portals, blogs, and other types of Web-based applications. XOOPS, short for eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System, provides a full-featured administration console that makes it easy to manage a site, pages, and user access. Like other modern content management systems, XOOPS offers customizable themes, and a set of user-supplied modules for added functionality.
With a total of five virtualized content management systems in the click2try catalog, users can evaluate and use WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, and SilverStripe – in addition to XOOPS. Supported by large user communities, each of these content management products provides sets of features to help individuals and small and large organizations create blogs, Web sites, collaboration systems, and manage large amounts of online content.
"XOOPS is a great content management system that has been around for a long time and has a large community of users and developers," says Tom Callaghan, click2try VP Operations. "XOOPS offers over 60 themes right out of the box, as well as a complete user management system. By adding XOOPS to our catalog, we continue to provide our customers a wide choice of solutions."
XOOPS is a truly international project, with hundreds of developers from around the world providing modules to extend the XOOPS capabilities. Because XOOPS uses the Smarty templating system (http://www.smarty.net), designers and users can apply their own custom templates without affecting internal XOOPS operations. This ease-of-use helps explain the tens of thousands of XOOPS users around the world.
click2try is dedicated to providing a way for individuals and companies to easily evaluate and use the best content management systems in the Open Source market. Visitors to the site (http://www.click2try.com) can try any of the applications for free. click2try offers affordable service plans for those customers who want to use the applications on a persistent basis. Subscribers can save data and share applications and data with other registered users. click2try hosts over 40 Open Source applications in its VM Jukebox(TM), with new applications added weekly. All applications and data are stored securely within a hardened network infrastructure at the company's data center in Houston, Texas.
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