http://www.openacs.org/

Uses the [AOLServer] web server with embedded TCL 8.3 interpreter:  Multithreaded, automatically caches interpreted code for speed.  Has builtin, easy to use hooks to connect to databases like [Oracle], [Sybase], [PostgreSQL].

OpenACS is a web toolkit built on top of [AOLServer].  It has a strong community-oriented focus, with emphasis on bulletin boards (aka message forums), news, classifieds, as well as ecommerce functionality.  It has a very strong templating system as well.

Users:  greenpeace.org[http://www.greenpeace.org/], openacs.org[http://www.openacs.org/], www.travelerstales.com (most functionality hidden in admin pages)[http://www.travelerstales.com/], www.pps.org [http://www.pps.org/] .  Probably the most popular and most customized site is photo.net [http://photo.net/]

The precursor to OpenACS is ACS, the [arsDigita] Community System. There we have the connection to [Philip Greenspun], the operator of photo.net, and author of two books about database backed websites in which he uses the beginnings of ACS as his examples.


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See SysAdmin magazine, Feb 2003, pages 41-45 for the article
"The OpenACS E-Commerce Solution", by [Rafael Calvo] and [Mark Aufflick].




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