HKCL moves Aegir CMS to GPL licensing
HONG KONG, HELSINKI, Aug 9th 2003 -- Linux Center (HK) Ltd. has moved
the popular Nadmin Studio content management product and its successor,
Aegir CMS under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
The GPL licensing provides users rights to use, modify and distribute
the software as long as the source code is kept available and
modifications to the application given back to the development
community. The licensing change also removes restrictions on providing
commercial services on the CMS platform, allowing more companies to
enter the market.
Nadmin Studio was a popular Content Management System originally
developed by HKLC for small and mid-sized websites and organizations. In
late 2002 Nadmin Studio was renamed to Aegir CMS and moved to the
maintenance of an international developer community.
Aegir CMS runs on top of the Midgard Content Management Framework built
on the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) platform. Midgard powers
thousands of websites ranging from small organizational websites
(www.luottokunta.fi) to major portals like New Zealand eGovernment site
(www.govt.nz) and Playbill (www.playbill.com).
Core features of Aegir CMS include:
* MS Word -compatible content editor
o Easy publishing environment for non-technical users
o Requires MS Internet Explorer 5.01+ or Mozilla 1.3+
* Group-based workflow settings
o Different roles: Designers (layout), Developers (logic and
structure), Authors (content production), Editors (content approval and
publication)
o Roles are based on group settings and ownership of different
content areas
o Power users have access to revision control (RCS) and moving
content objects
* Staging/live setup
o Prepare you site changes in staging environment, test and finally
publish to live site when ready
o Use scheduled publication or publish to site immediately
* Multi-company hosting (ASP) support
o Each company is assigned to their own virtual database
o User interface can be customized to support ASP provider's brand
o ChangeLogs system provides easy way to publish system notices
* Multilingual support
o Aegir CMS ships with several languages including Danish, Dutch,
English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish,
Russian and Swedish
o Sites can be managed using several character sets, including
Unicode
* Flexible templating and layout system
o Layout templates can be generated from multiple elements gathered
from the site style and the page tree
* Full Midgard Content Management framework
o Easy and documented object-oriented PHP programming interface
o Separation of content, layout and site logic
o Efficient content management using a hierarchical topic and
article tree
o Flexible attachment of metadata and files to all content objects
o Support for different languages and character sets including
Unicode
o Replication and packaging utilities
More information:
Aegir CMS - http://www.aegir-cms.org/
Midgard - http://www.midgard-project.org/
HKLC - http://www.hklc.com/
Contacts:
Alan Chan
Director, Account Management - HKLC
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
852-2788 0608
Henri Bergius
Spokesman, The Midgard Project and Aegir CMS
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
+358-20-198 6032
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