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4 unusual facts about ArsDigita Community System


ArsDigita

The company produced a popular Open Source toolkit, the ArsDigita Community System (ACS), for building database-backed community websites, and flourished at the peak of the Internet bubble.

ArsDigita Community System

The two most current software toolkits based on this codebase are the OpenACS toolkit and the Red Hat CCM.

In 2001, the ACS code tree forked, with the Tcl code base being maintained and refactored by one group of developers, while the product line was being re-written in Java EE.

Philip Greenspun

Greenspun released the software behind photo.net as a free open-source toolkit called the ArsDigita Community System, built on top of the Oracle relational database management system.



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