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

  • Summary of the first OpenCms development Sprint

    Sep 12, 2008 - The first OpenCms Sprint was held September 9-10, 2008 in the KOMED convention center in Cologne, Germany. A total of 10 developers attended the Sprint. Results and Proceedings of the Sprint are now available for download.

  • Alkacon OCEE 2.1 substantially extends OpenCms functionality

    Aug 29, 2008 - OCEE for OpenCms offers Support for LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance. The latest OCEE release version 2.1 is a major update that introduces a number of new features for OpenCms 7.

  • Alkacon OAMP Comments module available

    Aug 28, 2008 - The next open source module in the Alkacon OAMP series has been released. The OAMP Comments module allows to add highly configurable blog like comment options to all template based pages in OpenCms.

  • First OpenCms Development Sprint in Cologne, Germany

    Jul 21, 2008 - Our very first OpenCms development sprint event will happen September 9 to 10, 2008 in Cologne, Germany. Sprints are a gathering of OpenCms developers who want to activly shape the future of OpenCms.

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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