eNaTIS - Powered by a FREE Open Source CMS - Developers Anonymous
Thursday, July 05, 2007 9:27 PM Trivium DawnWalker

eNaTIS - Powered by a FREE Open Source CMS

Thats right! After looking at the eNaTIS website trying to figure out why someone would want to deface already ugly looking sight, I looked at the source of the page and what do I see?

meta content="Joomla! - Copyright (C) 2005 - 2006 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved." name="Generator"

So our new Traffic Website is powered by a *FREE* *OPEN SOURCE* Content Management System?! Thats right folks! This *FREE* *OPEN SOURCE* implementation of Joomla! for the traffic department cost us, the taxpayers R408-million!

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# re: eNaTIS - Powered by a FREE Open Source CMS

Friday, July 06, 2007 5:16 AM by codingsanity

As I said at Steven's blog, keep in mind that Joomla is used only for the website that TALKS about eNaTIS, not eNaTIS itself.

# re: eNaTIS - Powered by a FREE Open Source CMS

Friday, July 06, 2007 7:38 AM by Ryan CrawCour

gotta love it ....

open source for me is like your corner drug dealer; he hands out your first hit for free to get you hooked; and then .... well soon you'll be stealing from your grandmother to keep the supply running smoothly!

:P

# re: eNaTIS - Powered by a FREE Open Source CMS

Friday, July 06, 2007 9:27 AM by Armand du Plessis

The website is not the eNaTIS system. It's an informational site. Why not use something that is suitable for the job rather than waste money inventing the wheel again?

# re: eNaTIS - Powered by a FREE Open Source CMS

Monday, July 09, 2007 10:06 AM by Willie Roberts

Have to agree with Armand. Using Joomla CMS was a pretty good move from their side as it needs very little maitenance and is a stable software. However it is always important to keep it up to date which is the reason for the hack.

I wish more companies will implement prebuilt CMS's solutions, and Joomla falls in the same category as Community Server and dasBlog among others. My current favorite is SubText.

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