"Ten years ago, when Metadot founder and CEO Daniel Guermeur was working for a large technology company, he discovered that the Web-based content management systems he was developing were too complicated for his customers, who kept saying they needed a Web-based portal application that was easy to learn and easy to use. Guermeur wanted to provide that, but he was stymied by the closed aspect of the technologies he was developing with: with no access to the source code and long waits for product upgrades from vendors, it would be too slow and expensive to roll out more efficient solutions. So Guermeur started looking at open source.
"'I wanted to see what tools were available for creating a Web application anybody could use to maintain a Web site and do online collaboration,' Guermeur says. He found that the classic LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl) was exactly what he needed to create a full-featured content management system..."
