Agile Metadot Serves Up Open Source Web Apps

“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…”

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