Umbraco - The Friendly CMS
Umbraco is an Open Source content management system(CMS) developed using Microsoft ASP.NET C# and Microsoft SQL Server. The name Umbraco was given based on the Danish name ‘Umbraconøgle” which means Allen Key. in English.
Quote from the original Umbraco web site:
A name that marks Umbraco as being a simple tool that will enable you to build marvelous solutions for your clients.
Since it uses ASP.NET, its source code is well written using MVC architectural pattern, and easy to modify and maintain using Visual Studio IDE.
There is one huge disadvantage for the apps develop using legacy .NET framework. The websites build using this framework can only be hosted on Windows Server base IIS (Internet Information Services) web servers. Since Windows Server IIS hosting (ASP.NET web hosting) packages are relatively expensive in the past, not many ordinary developers will use this platform to create there blog web site. This is a little disadvantage for this quality framework compared to WordPress.
There upcoming version is now completely developed using New Microsoft .NET Core (ASP.NET 5) architecture. So this will enable cross-platform installation, so future Umbraco web sites can be hosted on cheap Linux servers.
Little bit of history
Initially Umbraco was not open source project. Starting from Umbraco 2.0 release in 16th February 2005 they introduced the open source for the community. Since 2013 Umbraco source code moved to GitHub.
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