
Locomotive is an open source CMS for Ruby on Rails. It’s flexible and integrates with Heroku and Amazon S3.




Open Atrium is a team collaboration tool with group spaces that allow different teams to have their own conversations. It comprises six core features – a blog, a wiki, a calendar, a to do list, a shoutbox, and a dashboard.




Drupal is open source social publishing software that empowers people to easily publish, manage and organize content on a website. Acquia Drupal is a packaged distribution of Drupal core plus commonly-used add-on modules to simplify getting started. Drupal is open-source software distributed under the GPL and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers. Drupal is free to download and use.




Magnolia is a powerful Open Source CMS whose page editing interface enables authors to lay out content exactly as it would appear to the website visitor. Magnolia uses Java technology based on open standards to allow for tailor-made solutions and offers enterprise-grade support and services via partners world-wide.




MaiaCMS is an open source PHP based content management system (CMS). It is designed with simplicity in mind to help you easily build and maintain your web site.




Kete is Open Source Digital Library and Archiving software with a focus on community collaboration. Use this CMS to write topics and upload images, audio, video, documents; discuss and interlink them.




Omeka is a content management system designed for scholars, museums, libraries, archives, and enthusiasts to create complex narratives and share rich collections.




PivotX is primarily a blogging platform but if also allows you to maintain more complex websites.




WebGUI is an open source content management system built to give business users the ability to build and maintain
complex web sites. Today, WebGUI is in use as a framework in several Global 1000 companies and is the driving force
behind countless business and enterprise environments.



Pixie is a light weight CMS, coded in PHP/CSS and primarily serving as a blogging platform. It was created with a single vision: that anyone should be able to create and maintain a website.




eFront is an easy to use, visually attractive, SCORM compatible, eLearning and Human Capital Development system. It is suitable for both company and educational usage.



FlatPress is an open source, standard compliant, multi lingual extensible blogging engine which does not require a database to work.



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