Does Umbraco Means dot NET Open Source CMS ?
Anyhow, Umbraco doesn’t really mean “.NET Open Source CMS”, but that’s what it is and it seems to be doing it well. Niels Hartvig kicked this project off in 2001 and now in its in version 2.0. Umbraco is an Open Source Web Content Management (CMS) product written in C# on the Microsoft .NET platform. It’s simple, fast, flexible and with a user interface that, if I do say so myself, is actually charming to use. Their website makes that claim. However, I’ve played with the product and I have to agree. The UI is well designed, pleasing to fiddle with, and offers you friendly little suggestions as you tinker away. Its not without bugs mind you, but this is Open Source (GPL in fact) and that means its FREE. We can’t complain. Umbraco CMS is produced by Danish Umbraco ApS. They are a for profit organization and currently have a “professional” (commercial) license for the product in the works. So I’d venture a guess that they are modeling themselves a bit like Norway’s eZ Systems with their e
