About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: PhpBB, FluxBB, Cyn.in, Ourproject.org, Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, BigBlueButton, Open-Xchange, Kolab, GForge, FUDforum, Wreckamovie, Group-Office, Agorum core, Zimbra, OpenKM, MindTouch, Inc., Tine 2.0, EGroupWare, Feng Office Community Edition, LibreSource, Scalix, Beehive Forum, Icy Phoenix, SOGo, Hula, Gobby, Phorum, Exchange4linux, Collabtive, Citadel/UX, FusionForge, Meldware Communication Suite, Universal village collaboration suite, Covide, OBM Groupware, Horde, Simple Groupware, Flagship Docs, Mindquarry, Monkey Boards, GroupDAV, Office123, PhpGroupWare, Knomos. Excerpt: phpBB is a popular Internet forum package written in the PHP scripting language. The name "phpBB" is an abbreviation of PHP Bulletin Board. Available under the GNU General Public License, phpBB is free and open source software. Features of phpBB include support for multiple database engines (PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server), flat message structure (as opposed to threaded), hierarchical subforums, topic split/merge/lock, user groups, multiple attachments per post, full-text search, plugins and various notification options (e-mail, Jabber instant messaging, ATOM feeds). phpBB was started by James Atkinson as a simple UBB-like forum for his own website on June 17, 2000. When Nathan Codding and John Abela joined the development team after phpBB's CVS repository was moved to SourceForge.net, and work on version 1.0.0 began. A fully functional, pre-release version of phpBB was made available in July. phpBB 1.0.0 was released on December 9, 2000, with subsequent improvements to the 1.x codebase coming in two more major installments. The final release in the 1.x line was phpBB 1.4.4, released on November 6, 2001. During the lifetime of the 1.x series, Bart van Bragt, Paul S. Owen (former co-manager of the project), Jonathan...