Umbraco

Umbraco is an open source content management system (CMS ) to edit and manage dynamic Web sites, they are written in the high level language C # and based on ASP.NET technology. As a Microsoft SQL Server database primarily is used since version 4 but can also be used MySQL and VistaDB.

The usable as a free web application framework Umbraco was founded in 2000 by the Danish software developer Niels Hartvig. Since then the system by the author, a core team and a very active community will be further developed.

License model

The CMS Umbraco is under a dual licensing model. On the one hand Umbraco can be used free of charge under an open source license and also enhanced on the other hand, there is the possibility of a commercial license with additional rights from the Danish company Umbraco I / S for sale.

The free licensing model is covered for wide parts of Umbraco by the MIT license, certain product-and trademark- related parts are, however, protected by the Umbraco open source license.

The name Umbraco and the Umbraco logo are trademarks of Niels Hartvig.

Development

The development of Umbraco began in 2000 as a proprietary software, 2004, the transition to an open source license. Since then, the project, the number of people working in the core team active developers and the community have grown steadily. According to Umbraco I / S passed in April 2007, over 25,000 installed and active Umbraco websites and doubled until May 2008 to 50,000 sites. In June 2012, there were according to the manufacturer more than 110,000 active installations.

With the release of version 5 on January 31, 2012, attempted to launch a new technology -based, all-new and therefore not compatible with the version 4 successor. On June 13, 2012, however, Niels Hartvig announced in the keynote of the developer conference code Garden, halt the progression of version 5.

Others

• In the name Umbraco is a common name in Scandinavian countries for allen key. Umbraco thus represents a " universal tool " for assembling websites.
• Ironically, the name is based on a clerical error, the correct Scandinavian name for the tool is Unbrako and stands for " Unbreakable ".