Support for OpenCms

OpenCms is a professional level Open Source website content management system. If you want to see OpenCms in action, you should start with the Guided tour of OpenCms. The tour contains many screenshots and gives a general, high-level introduction to the system.

We have also compiled a Feature list for OpenCms that provides more details and gives an overview about the general system capabilities.

The market for content management systems today is clustered with many proprietary commercial or non-commerical offerings. Check out the Advantages page to see why OpenCms stands out.

OpenCms is in active Open Source development since 1999, so a large number of professional websites have already been build with OpenCms all around the world. Have a look at the list of Reference sites to see OpenCms in action by companies, enterprises and organizations large and small.

For more questions and answers regarding OpenCms, please check out the list of OpenCms Frequently asked questions (FAQ).

When selecting a content management system, it's important to ensure that professional support is readily available. Using OpenCms you have a number of support options, either from the active OpenCms community, from one of the many OpenCms solution providers, or directly from Alkacon Software, the maintainers of OpenCms.

If you decide to use OpenCms, you will benefit from the success of OpenCms as it gains more and more widespread use. Please help to this development by Promoting and sponsoring the use of OpenCms.

Latest News

  • OpenCms 7.0.5 available

    Jul 2, 2008 - With OpenCms 7.0.5, a number of issues and security problems that persisted in the 7.0.4 release have been fixed. Some new features have been added as well, e.g. syntax highlighting in the text editor.

  • OpenCms 7.0.5 release notes

    Jul 2, 2008 - The OpenCms 7.0.5 release notes contain detailed information about the fixes and new features in this release.

  • Alkacon OAMP Calendar module available

    Jun 19, 2008 - The next open source module in the Alkacon OAMP series is now available. The OAMP Calendar module enables websites to display a calendar widget for events and other time based information.

  • OpenCms Days 2008 presentations and photos available

    Jun 10, 2008 - The presentation slides from the OpenCms Days 2008 sessions are now available for download. There is also an image gallery available with photos from the conference.

Alkacon OCEE

  • Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts

    The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions (also called OCEE) are a commercial extension for OpenCms. Alkacon OCEE adds features to OpenCms that are often required for running OpenCms in a medium or large Enterprise, where data consistency, security and failover are highly important.

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