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opensourceCMS

This site was created to give you the opportunity to "try out" some of the best open source and free php/mysql based software systems in the world. You can log in as the administrator to any site here, thus allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs.

Each system is deleted and reinstalled every two hours. This allows you to be the administrator of any system here without fear of messing anything up.

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Weblog system stored within native XML database

Syncato is a weblog system designed to extract the maximum potential from the content of your posts. All posts in Syncato are stored as XML within a native XML database and are searchable using XPath queries. This includes the ability to execute XPath via a URL from within your browser.

What this really means is that the limitations on how you use and reuse the content on your site is only determined by how you markup your posts. For minimal reuse you can just use standard XHTML, but the real power of Syncato comes when you go beyond that and add additional markup to increase the meaning of your content. What you want to do is up to you. The more information you add to your posts the more useful it will be to you and to others. For a better idea about what this means take a look at these posts by Kimbro Staken and Jon Udell.

In reality Syncato is much more then just a weblog system, it's an XML fragment management system that enables the creation and management of XML microcontent. That microcontent can represent weblog entries, comments about those entries or just about anything else. Using the facilities of the system you're then free to combine those fragments together however you desire. And just as with your weblog entries, your XML fragments are available via XPath and HTTP.

IT Research

Bitpipe, Inc. (www.bitpipe.com) is the leading source of in-depth information technology content including white papers, product literature, webcasts, analyst reports, and case studies.

Online Customer Relationship Management

Ohioedge CRM Server is an online CRM application designed for $2-500M organizations requiring centralized, multi-functional, enterprise-wide coordination of sales generation (contact management) & fulfillment (business process/workflow management) activities.

Enterprise-grade issue tracking

Best Practical Solutions LLC are the creators of RT: Request Tracker, the leading open-source issue-tracking system.

RT is an enterprise-grade task- and ticket-tracking platform, designed to simplify tracking of issues, user requests and project management in a community of users.

Linux Journal: Open-Source Bug Tracking with Bugzilla

How Bugzilla can help any project tracks job tasks as well as bugs.

Bug Tracking Systems (BTS) have their origin in software development, but they can serve as important and useful tools in every team environment. For this reason the names Issue Tracker or Ticket System have become more appropriate.

BTS may function as a central point of communication for any team. They can increase the productivity and accountability of each employee dramatically by providing a documented work flow and allowing for positive feedback on good performance. They usually reduce downtime and production costs while increasing efficiency and, most importantly, customer satisfaction.

The open-source project Bugzilla, for example, provides an easy to use, easy to maintain and cost effective solution with a rich feature set that easily can compete with its proprietary counterparts. Bugzilla's Web interface allows cross-platform use while the XML and e-mail interfaces enable automatic error reporting. Not only can the automatic error reporting be included in the development of a new product, but it also can be integrated easily into an existing product.
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