LinuxWorld Q&A with Lead Developer of Joomla!, Andrew Eddie
— In September, core developers of Mambo, the popular open source content management system, announced a fork of the project, called Joomla!, with virtually all active participants following the fork.

This is an interesting article. If any of you were wondering about the Mambo-Joomla split, here you go. One thing I forgot to mention is that Mambo is still in existence. I believe it is at the same version where it left off before the split. For me, it seems that Joomla is the way to go. Joomla is being developed by the same development team. And what makes the decision even easier is that most 3rd party developers have started making their Mambots, Modules and Components specific to Joomla.

This is what Andrew Eddie (Development Leader of Joomla) had to say in response to 3rd party products for Joomla:

I think this is the most powerful area of Mambo and will continue to be for Joomla! Whether you love it or hate it, somehow we have struck on a formula that allows people to easily develop extensions and this is a testament to our growth and popularity. It’s easy to develop for Joomla! and we want to continue this heritage, if not make it even easier.

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Ok, we’ve all heard of Mambo CMS (Content Management System). It’s a PHP package which many use to set up and manage websites. I’ve been using Mambo on a couple of my sites in the past and frequently on sites done for customers who wish to perform their own updates to their sites but have little web development skills. Although Mambo has a bit of a learning curve, once you do the workings down, anyone can update the site in a nice WYSIWYG editor straight from the website itself.

From Mambo spawn Joomla!!! In a nutshell, there were some differences between the management team and the development team on the Mambo project, so the development guys decided to leave and create their own product, Joomla

Joomla! is a production of Open Source Matters, the same team that brought you the award winning Mambo Content Management System. OSM has taken their final stable version of Mambo (4.5.2.3), given it a spring clean and named it Joomla! 1.0 In addition, several small features that were going to be released in Joomla! 1.1 have been brought forward and included in this release.

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