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Reasons to use open source Unix/Linix/FreeBSD

London Stock Exchange suffers .NET Crash

http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_suffers_net_crash

Why the London Stock Exchange went for Linuxhttp://www.itpro.co.uk/615985/why-the-london-stock-exchange-went-for-linux

Google has many tens of thousands of FreeBSD-based devices helping to run its production networks (Juniper, Force10, NetApp, etc..)

http://code.google.com/soc/2008/freebsd/about.html

FreeBSD is used as a platform for devices and products from many of the world’s largest IT companies, including: Apple, Cisco, Juniper, NetApp.  FreeBSD is also used to power some of the biggest sites on the Internet, including: Yahoo!, Yandex, Apache, Rambler, Sina, Pair Networks, Sony Japan, Netcraft, NetEase, Weathernews, TELEHOUSE America, Experts Exchange.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/nutshell.html

IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office – 360,000 IBM workers have been told to stop using Microsoft Office and switch to the Open Office-based software Symphony.

http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/products

[Google's] Servers are commodity-class x86 PCs running customized versions of Linux.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform

In this presentation filmed during QCon SF 2008, Aditya Agarwal discusses Facebook’s architecture, more exactly the software stack used, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of its major components: [Linux]LAMP (PHP, MySQL), Memcache, Thrift, Scribe.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Facebook-Software-Stack

Government/Public Sector Using Unix/Linux

German Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit (BA)
The German government’s agency for labor has migrated 13,000 information terminals from Windows to Linux.

French Ministry for Education
The ministry has migrated over 3,000 servers to Linux – nearly all of their servers – with the majority running Red Hat.

Library of Congress, USA
Thousands of rare historic documents housed by the Library of Congress are being digitalized using Linux clusters and other Linux-based systems and the open source Scribe system.

Portuguese Ministry of Justice
The Ministry of Justice of Portugal is implementing a plan called LISA to incorporate Free and Open Source software into their IT infrastructure as a way to be innovative while also cutting costs.

Swedish Armed Forces
The Armed Forces of Sweden announced in February of 2007 that they would be migrating their servers from Windows NT to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Government of Switzerland
In mid-December 2005, the Swiss government announced that it would be carrying out a large-scale migration of servers to Novell’s SUSE Linux.

Berlin, Germany
The city government of Berlin announced in early December, 2005 that they would be migrating most of their 58.000 Windows desktops to Linux.

New Zealand’s Inland Revenue
The Inland Revenue Department of New Zealand announced in late October 2005 that they would be migrating 7,000 desktop systems to Linux.

Munich, Germany
Munich’s city government announced it was migrating its entire IT operations to the Linux platform in 2002. Despite a personal visit from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the German city is continuing with its plans to switch 14,000 desktops to Linux.

The Government of Japan
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications announced in early October 2005 its plans to key government systems to Linux in order to decrease its dependency on Microsoft products.

Junta de Extramadura, Spain
The Junta de Extremadura, the regional government of Extremadura, is a pioneer in the use of Linux in the public sector. They have also developed their own Linux distribution called LinEx. The have embarked on a large-scale migration of their IT infrastructure, which includes switching 14 hospitals and over 400 local health care centers to Linux. The have also installed Linux in 80,000 computers in their public schools.

Vienna, Austria
Officials in Vienna’s city government announced at the beginning of 2005 that they would be migrating one third of their desktops to Linux. Other desktops, though still running Windows, would be using OpenOffice. They are also reportedly developing their own Linux distribution, called Wienux.

Bergen, Norway
Norway’s second largest city announced in June, 2004 its plans to migrate its core IT infrastructure to Linux. A combination of Unix and Windows servers will be phased out and replaced with servers running Linux.

South African Revenue Service
The South African Revenue serviced announced in April of 2005 that it was moving its SAP system on to Linux servers running Novell’s SUSE Linux.

Ministry of Health, New Zealand
New Zealand’s Ministry of Health announced in February 2005 that they were migrating servers running Windows to Linux.

Largo, Florida, USA
The city of Largo, Florida was one of the first high-profile migrations to Linux in the public sector. The switch began in 2000 when David Richards, the systems administrator for the city began switching webservers to Red Hat Linux. He followed in 2001 by beginning the change to thin clients running Linux.

Pinellas County, Florida
Public access to county court records database is provided by servers running Linux.

Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana
The city of Bloomington’s emergency dispatch system runs on Linux. Police and fire crews are managed by the system.

United States Postal Service
One of the earliest known Linux adoptions was the U.S. Postal Service’s switch to Linux in 1997. A Linux-based system was set up to run OCR equipment that recognizes the destination addresses on letters.

Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
It was announced in November of 2003 that PEC Solutions of Fairfax, Virginia would be taking on the task of migrating the Federal Judiciary’s entire national IT infrastructure to Linux. The system will handle case management, finance and accounting, probation and pretrial services, and case-tracking management.

The Federal Government of Brazil
Linux and Open Source software will be mandatory for government agencies in Brazil according to a presidential decree being drafted in early 2005.

Mexico City, Mexico
The capital of Mexico has been migrating its IT infrastructure to Linux since the election of Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2000.

National Security Agency, USA
One of the pillars of the intelligence community of the United States, the NSA developed its own custom enhancements to the Linux kernel, known as Security Enhanced Linux or SE Linux.

Department of Human Services, New Jersey, USA
State IT officials migrated the Child-Welfare Implementation System to Linux, greatly speeding up the time it takes case workers to access records.

The State of Nebraska, USA
The State of Nebraska has migrated some of its key IT infrastructure to Linux.

United States Census Bureau
The Fast Facts website is a Linux-based web application.

United States Department of Energy
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory uses a Beowulf cluster powered by Linux servers. In 2002, it was the most powerful Linux-based system in the world.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), USA
The FBI’s Dallas, Texas office uses a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl/Python) solution to provide an Emergency Response Network. The system links federal, state and local agency and insures fast response times in the event of emergencies.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), USA
NASA has been a long time user of Linux and Open Source software. Debian GNU/Linux was used to control experiments on the Space Shuttle mission STS-83 in April, 1997

State of Mississippi, USA
The state’s Automated System Project, which runs on Linux servers, coordinates state, local and federal law enforcement agencies’ access to information. The project, funded by the US Department of Homeland Security, serves as a model for a future nationwide system.

Ministry of Information and Communication, South Korea
The ministry is funding projects within the South Korean government that use Linux and Open Source.

The Government of Venezuela
President Hugo Chavez issued a decree in December 2004 that calls on the Minister for Science and Technology to draw up a national plan for transition of Venezuela’s public administration to Open Source software. The Ministry of Sports and Education, which has already made the switch, saved up to 4 billion Bolivares in 2004 on their IT costs.

Government Open Code Collaborative, USA
The states of Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia share Open Source applications through a repository at the University of Rhode Island. GOCC hosts these applications for sharing among government entities and non-profits.

Central Scotland Police, Scotland, UK
Central Scotland Police have developed a Linux-based system to facilitate the public’s access to government data as mandated in the Freedom of Information Act.

Centrelink, Australia
Centrelink is the government agency that distributes social security payments in Australia. The agency’s 27,000 staff will use a Linux-based system to distribute $55 billion AU to over 6 million users.

Ministry of Finance, Denmark
The Ministry uses a JBoss application server running on Red Hat Linux to exchange XML data among ministries in Denmark.

United States Navy
The US Navy employs Linux clusters to run sonar systems on nuclear submarines.

Federal Ministry of Education, Nigeria
Education officials in Nigeria had migrated 35 high schools to Linux in 2003.

Northern Territory, Australia
The government of the Northern Territory has pledged to increase the use of open source technologies. As of May 2005, $35 million AU has been spent already migrating desktops to Linux.

Industry Using Unix/Linux

AIG Sales, South Africa
South African steel and pipe company AIG Sales migrated their DOS-based accounting system to one running Sage on Linux servers.

Amadeus Development Company
Amadeus, a travel reservations system provider, uses Linux extensively throughout their operations.

Axfood
The Scandinavian food retailer is using Red Hat Linux to power their SAP business software. The are also using the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, also provided by Red Hat.

Banrisul
One of the largest banks in Brazil, all of Banrisul’s ATM machines run the Linux operating system.

BMW
BMW uses Xen virtualization technology on Novell’s SUSE Linux in their data center.

BMW Williams Formula 1
The Formula 1 team uses an Linux cluster built by Hewlett-Packard to carry out high-resolution aerodynamic modelling of its team’s cars.

Continental Airlines
Continental Airlines has switched over to Linux to power their ticket-reissuing system.

Country Energy, NSW, Australia
A Linux user since 1995, Country Energy has been steadily moving more and more systems over to Linux.

Deutsche Bahn
German railway system manager Deutsche Bahn began in late 2004 to migrate its servers to Linux. The migrated systems include a Lotus Notes server, a SAP system and their web servers. Other systems will follow.

Endress+Hauser
In the summer of 2004, the sensors and instruments manufacturer migrated its SAP system on to a mainframe running Linux.

Ernie Ball Inc.
The guitar string manufacturer abandoned Microsoft and migrated its entire IT infrastructure to Linux after a highly publicized audit by the Business Software Alliance, a Microsoft-funded licensing watchdog.

Fiat
The Italian automaker uses a Linux-based system to run its European sales and support network.

Hyundai Motor Company
Hyundai uses a Linux cluster built by IBM for crash simulation tests and analysis.

LIF (Swedish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry)
LIF uses Red Hat Linux to power their information portal where they provide information about medicines.

PayPal
The on-line payment manager runs its web presence and middleware tier on thousands of Linux servers

Pioneer Petroleum
Ontario, Canada gasoline retailer Pioneer Petroleum are migrating computers in their stations to Red Hat Linux Workstation.

Priority Healthcare Corp.
The Florida-based pharmaceutical company has migrated its infrastructure to IBM eServer xSeries servers running Red Hat Linux.

PSA Peugeot Citroën
The European automaker has a contract with Novell Inc. to migrate over 20,000 desktops and 2000 servers to SUSE Enterprise Linux.

Qantas Airways
Qantas has migrated 80% of their datacenter servers to Linux.

Sallie Mae Inc.
The student loan provider uses Linux extensively in their IT infrastructure.

Singapore Airlines
Red Hat Linux powers its KrisWorld in-flight entertainment system.

Spanair
The Spanish airline is using Red Hat Enterprise Linux in two of their major areas of operation.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
The owner of the Le Meridien and Sheraton hotel chains uses Linux to run their reservations system.

Statoil
Norway’s largest oil company has migrated some key pieces of their IT infrastructure to Red Hat Linux.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange
In early 2005, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange began to migrate their Sparc hardware running Sun’s Solaris to commodity servers running Linux.

Thrifty Car Rental
Thrifty is running a large percentage of their IT infrastructure on Ubuntu Linux

Unilever
The Anglo-Dutch food conglomerate started a migration to open source and Linux in 2004.

Union Bank of California
The California USA based bank has migrated its IT infrastructure to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Virgin America Airlines
Red Hat Enterprise Linux powers the airline’s web presence.

Volvo
Volvo is using an IBM-built Linux cluster to process vehicle crash test data.

Welch Foods Inc.
The jam, jelly and juice maker switched to Dell servers running Oracle on Linux in early 2005

Arts and Entertainment Using Unix/Linux

Digital Domain
Digital Domain of Venice, California, used Linux servers to aid in the CGI (computer generated image) process for the Oscar-winning film Titanic.

DreamWorks
The animation studio has used Linux in the production of several of their top movies, including Shrek, Shrek 2, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, and Shark Tale.

Film: Sin City
Director Robert Rodriguez pioneered the use of Dual Link, or “4:4:4″ format in his film Sin City. The process used a Linux-based RaveHD DDR.

Weta Digital
Weta Digital of New Zealand ran Red Hat Linux on hundreds of rackmounted servers to render images for the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings films.

The use of stem cells for humans in treating hip osteoarthritis is relatively new. There are four main doctors or “hospitals” that use stem cells for treatment of hip osteoarthritis. They are:

1. Dr. Steenblock in Southern California at the Steenblock Research Institute
2. Dr. Centeno in Colorado at Regenerative Sciences Inc.
3. Dr. Wei in Maryland at the Arthritis and Osteoporosis Center of Maryland
4. The XCell-Center in Dusseldorf Germany

Here are the results.

1. Dr. Steenblock in Southern California at the Steenblock Research Institute

As of 2008 2 hip osteoarthritis patients treated 100% with good results.

Quote from the Steenblock Research Institute on October 15, 2008: “We have had 2 patients with hip osteoarthritis and both got good results – one reported moderate improvement and reduction in pain and the other reported significant improvement.”

2. Dr. Centeno in Colorado at Regenerative Sciences Inc.

Quote from Dr. Centeno via e-mail on January 5, 2010: “I would estimate about 100 + hips.”  … “it {this data} may not get published until next year.”

From Dr. Centeno’s web site on January 5, 2010: “75% of hip patients reported more than 50% relief and 88% of them reported more than 75% relief”

Quote from Dr. Centeno’s office via e-mail on January 12, 2010: “Excel, Stenblock, and Wei use a bone marrow derived, nucleated cell concentrate, out of which 1 in 50,000-500,000 is a stem cell capable of orthopedic tissue repair (mesenchymal stem cell).  Centeno uses culture expanded mesenchymal stem cells.

Insertion of cells makes a big difference.  Injection into the hip requires imaging guidance or the chance the cells will be not be placed in the hip is significant.”

Centeno et al is the only group who has published data on hip patients:

Imaging case report here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16886034?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=1

Safety data here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19951252?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=1

3. Dr. Wei in Maryland at Arthritis and Osteoporosis Center of Maryland

“Dr. Wei has been using stem cells for treatment of hip OA for several months now, so it is still fairly new. He has done the procedure on about 10 patients with overall good results. At this point, we are seeing about an 80% success rate. By that, I mean that those patients have decreased pain, and increased mobility and range of motion.”

4. The XCell-Center in Dusseldorf Germany

“Since the start in January 2007, more than 2000 patients have safely undergone our various stem cell treatments.”  XCell-Center has an unknown success rate with hip osteoarthritis.

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“Stem cells and tumor risk
Adult stem cells do not increase tumor risk

One question that is regularly asked in connection with stem cell therapy is whether stem cells increase the risk of cancer. This is a justified concern if a therapy involves embryonic stem cells because these cells actually do divide at an extremely fast rate, and they have already been shown to have cancer-causing potential in animals and humans. However, therapy with embryonic stem cells is strictly prohibited in Germany. At the XCell-Center, we only use the patient’s own stem cells for therapy.
The following applies to therapy with adult stem cells:

Adult stem cells, which are transplanted immediately after their removal and concentration for therapeutic purposes, do not increase the risk of tumor unless the patient already has cancer.
Here are the facts based on the current information status:

Fact 1: No indications of higher tumor formation have been found to exist over the last 40 years in the therapy of leukemia and lymphoma, which also involves the use of adult stem cells.

Fact 2: The behavior of adult stem cells depends to a great extent on their environment. There is no evidence to date that adult stem cells promote tumor formation in the human body.

There is one exception. The growth of an existing tumor can be promoted by the insertion of adult stem cells, and tissue that is damaged by irradiation can harden into cancerous tissue after the injection of adult stem cells.

Fact 3: Adult stem cells only tend to form cancerous stem cells if they are allowed to multiply in a culture dish over a lengthy period of time, because the probability of genetic defect clusters increases in proportion to the number of cell divisions.

Summary: In accordance with the latest scientific findings, the therapy performed at the XCell-Center does not cause tumors because the stem cells are not allowed to multiply for any length of time outside the body. They are transplanted back into the body immediately after purification. The XCell-Center doesn’t treat patients with tumors.”

http://www.xcell-center.com/news/stem-cells-and-tumor-risk.aspx

Summary

It’s clear that stem cell therapy is just beginning, and data collection and reporting on results is poor, but thousands of treatments have been made around the world with overall excellent reported results and a low incidence of reported problems.  This makes stem cell therapy, especially adult/autologous stem cell therapy, something that has the seeming potential to help many people with hip osteoarthritis as well as other problems.  Over 100 reported cases stem cell therapy has been used to treat hip osteoarthritis in the United States with overall good results.

This article is not meant to promote or support any treatment.  It is only to be used for entertainment and informational purposes, not to treat, recommend, or diagnose any medical condition.  Always seek advice from a qualify medical professional.

Over the centuries, differing churches and sects of Christianity have changed the actual traditions, time frame and their interpretations. St. Stephen’s Day (or Boxing Day), for example, is 26 December in the Western Church and 27 December in the Eastern Church. Boxing Day, the first weekday after Christmas, is observed as a legal holiday in parts of the Commonwealth of Nations and was traditionally marked by the giving of Christmas boxes to service workers (such as postal workers and trades people) in the United Kingdom; 28 December is Childermas or the Feast of the Innocents. Currently, the 12 days and nights are celebrated in widely varying ways around the world. For example, some give gifts only on Christmas Night, some only on Twelfth Night and some each of the 12 nights.

In England in the Middle Ages, this period was one of continuous feasting and merrymaking, which climaxed on Twelfth Night, the traditional end of the Christmas season. In Tudor England, Twelfth Night itself was forever solidified in popular culture when William Shakespeare used it as setting for one of his most famous stage plays, titled Twelfth Night. Often a Lord of Misrule was chosen to lead the Christmas revels.

Some of these traditions were adapted from the older pagan customs, including the Roman Saturnalia and the Germanic Yuletide. Some also have an echo in modern day pantomime where traditionally authority is mocked and the principal male lead is played by a woman, while the leading older female character, or ‘Dame’, is played by a man.

The early North American colonists brought their version of the Twelve Days over from England, and adapted them to their new country, adding their own variations over the years. For example, the modern day Christmas wreath may have originated with these colonials. A homemade wreath would be fashioned from local greenery and if fruits were available, they were added. Making the wreaths was one of the traditions of Christmas Eve; they would be hung on each home’s front door beginning on Christmas Night (1st night of Christmas) through Twelfth Night or Epiphany morning. As was already the tradition in their native England, all decorations would be taken down by Epiphany morning and the remainder of the edibles would be consumed. A special cake, the king cake, was also baked then for Epiphany.

In Eastern Christianity (the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches) the Great Feast of Theophany (Epiphany) on 6 January is considered a higher-ranked feast than the Nativity (Christmas), and commemorates the Baptism of Jesus rather than the arrival of the Wise Men. The twelve days beginning on 25 December are observed as a fast-free period of celebration. The Armenian Apostolic Church and the Armenian Catholic Church, however, observe the Nativity of Christ on 6 January, and thus do not have a twelve day period between Christmas and 5 January.

The Eve of the Theophany (5 January) is a day of strict fasting, on which the devout will not eat anything until the first star is seen at night. This day is known as Paramony (“preparation”), and follows the same general outline as Christmas Eve. That morning is the celebration of the Royal Hours and then the Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil combined with Vespers, at the conclusion of which is celebrated the Great Blessing of Waters, in commemoration of the Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River. There are certain parallels between the hymns chanted on Paramony and those of Good Friday, to show that, according to Orthodox theology, the steps that Jesus took into the Jordan River were the first steps on the way to the Cross. That night the All-Night Vigil is served for the Feast of the Theophany.

Christmas in the United States

With the onset of more U.S.-Americanized and secular traditions throughout the past two centuries (such as the U.S.-American “Santa Claus”), also the popularity of Christmas Eve itself as if it were also an actual holiday, and rise in popularity of New Year’s Eve parties as well, the traditions of the Twelve Days of Christmas have been largely forgotten in the U.S. This is also heightened by the commercial practice to have after-Christmas sales begin on 26 December and run usually until New Year’s Eve. Indeed, contemporary marketing and media tend to espouse the (erroneous) belief that the Twelve Days end on Christmas and thus begin 14 December.

However, a small percentage of Christians of many sects have held on to their own favorite ways to celebrate and those who choose to also have their own church to guide them in a spiritual way of marking this reverent holiday. U.S. Americans who celebrate various ways include secular Christians of all backgrounds: religious Catholics, Orthodox Christians, Lutherans, Episcopalians, Moravians and those of the Amish and Mennonite communities.

Today, some celebrants give gifts each of the Twelve Days, feast and otherwise celebrate the entire time through to Epiphany morning. Lighting a candle for each day has become a modern tradition in the U.S. and of course, singing the appropriate verses of the famous song each day is also an important and fun part of the American celebrations.

Some still celebrate Twelfth Night as the biggest night for parties and gift-giving and some also light a Yule Log on the first night (Christmas) and let it burn some each of the twelve nights. Some Americans also have their own traditional foods to serve each night.

As in olden days, Twelfth Night to Epiphany morning is then the traditional time to take down the Christmas tree and decorations.

Only one man listened to the meaning of this advice. He collected water and went to a secure place where he stored it, and waited for the water to change its character.

On the appointed date the streams stopped running, the wells went dry, and the man who had listened, seeing this happening, went to his retreat and drank his preserved water.

When he saw, from his security, the waterfalls again beginning to flow, this man descended among the other sons of men. He found that they were thinking and talking in an entirely different way from before; yet they had no memory of what had happened, nor of having been warned. When he tried to talk to them, he realized that they thought that he was mad, and they showed hostility or compassion, not understanding.

At first, he drank none of the new water, but went back to his concealment, to draw on his supplies, every day. Finally, however, he took the decision to drink the new water because he could not bear the loneliness of living, behaving and thinking in a different way from everyone else. He drank the new water, and became like the rest. Then he forgot all about his own store of special water, and his fellows began to look upon him as a madman who had miraculously been restored to sanity.

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A web-content-management system (WCMS or Web CMS) is content management system (Website CMS) software, usually implemented as a Web application, for creating and managing HTML content. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and their associated images). A WCMS facilitates content creation, content control, editing, and many essential Web maintenance functions.

Real estate is a legal term (in some jurisdictions, notably in the USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and The Bahamas) that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings, specifically property that is fixed in location.[1] Real estate law is the body of regulations and legal codes which pertain to such matters under a particular jurisdiction and include things such as commercial and residential real property transactions. Real estate is often considered synonymous with real property (also sometimes called realty), in contrast with personal property (also sometimes called chattel or personalty under chattel law or personal property law).

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Web design is a kind of graphic design intended for development and styling of objects of the Internet’s information environment to provide them with high-end consumer features and aesthetic gualities. The offered definition separates web design from web programming, emphasizing the functional features of a web site, as well as positioning web design as a kind of graphic design.

Usually the software provides authoring (and other) tools designed to allow users with little or no knowledge of programming languages or markup languages to create and manage content with relative ease.

However, in some situations the term “real estate” refers to the land and fixtures together, as distinguished from “real property,” referring to ownership of land and appurtenances, including anything of a permanent nature such as structures, trees, minerals, and the interest, benefits, and inherent rights thereof. Real property is typically considered to be Immovable property[2] The terms real estate and real property are used primarily in common law, while civil law jurisdictions refer instead to immovable property.

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Most systems use a database to store content, metadata, and/or artifacts that might be needed by the system. Content is frequently, but not universally, stored as XML, to facilitate reuse and enable flexible presentation options.

The process of designing Web pages, Web sites, Web applications or multimedia for the Web may utilize multiple disciplines, such as animation, authoring, communication design, corporate identity, graphic design, human-computer interaction, information architecture, interaction design, marketing, photography, search engine optimization and typography.

* Markup languages (such as HTML, XHTML and XML)
* Style sheet languages (such as CSS and XSL)
* Client-side scripting (such as JavaScript)
* Server-side scripting (such as PHP and ASP)
* Database technologies (such as MySQL and PostgreSQL)
* Multimedia technologies (such as Flash and Silverlight)

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A presentation layer displays the content to regular Web-site visitors based on a set of templates. The templates are sometimes XSLT files.

A content management system (Website CMS) is a system used to manage the content of a Web site. Typically, a CMS consists of two elements: the content management application (CMA) and the content delivery application (CDA). The CMA element allows the content manager or author, who may not know Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), to manage the creation, modification, and removal of content from a Web site without needing the expertise of a Webmaster. The CDA element uses and compiles that information to update the Web site. The features of a CMS system vary, but most include Web-based publishing, format management, revision control, and indexing, search, and retrieval.

Most systems also use some form of server side caching which enables a boost of performance. This works best when the WCMS is not intended to be changed often but visits happen on a regular basis.

Web pages and Web sites can be static pages, or can be programmed to be dynamic pages that automatically adapt content or visual appearance depending on a variety of factors, such as input from the end-user, input from the Webmaster or changes in the computing environment (such as the site’s associated database having been modified).

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The Web-based publishing feature allows individuals to use a template or a set of templates approved by the organization, as well as wizards and other tools to create or modify Web content. The format management feature allows documents including legacy electronic documents and scanned paper documents to be formatted into HTML or Portable Document Format (PDF) for the Web site. The revision control feature allows content to be updated to a newer version or restored to a previous version. Revision control also tracks any changes made to files by individuals. An additional feature is indexing, search, and retrieval. A CMS system indexes all data within an organization. Individuals can then search for data using keywords, which the CMS system retrieves.

Administration is typically done through browser-based interfaces, but some systems require the use of a fat client.

With growing specialization within communication design and information technology fields, there is a strong tendency to draw a clear line between web design specifically for web pages and web development for the overall logistics of all web-based services.

Unlike Web-site builders like Microsoft FrontPage or Adobe Dreamweaver, a WCMS allows non-technical users to make changes to an existing website with little or no training. A WCMS typically requires an experienced coder to set up and add features, but is primarily a Web-site maintenance tool for non-technical administrators.

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In the context of a Web site a CMS is a collection of tools designed to allow the creation, modification organisation and removal of information from a Web site. It is common for a CMS to require users to have no knowledge of HTML in order to create new Web pages.

These days almost no serious web site is developed without the use of a CMS as the underlying backbone.  This is for a very good reason.

Features of a CMS site include:

• easily updated content including photos, videos, and text
• different user access levels so that your data entry people will not have access to system level controls for higher security
• e-commerce functionality to sell your products and services
• photo galleries
• contact forms
• fully customizable for advanced features (may required additional fees)
• forums/message boards
• colorful and unique designs
• spam protection
• blogs
• web site visitor statistics in real time
• much more…

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(CMS) separates the management of content from that of its presentation. This allows segments of content to bear Metadata and other attributes and be handled as building blocks in putting together Web pages, thus simplifying the task of updating.

A CMS is usually a database driven, dynamic website that provides the site owner with an administration area where website content (image & text) can be updated and/or deleted. QMG provides customised CMS development. Click here for more information on CMS development.

A software program that allows non-technical users to edit, update, maintain, and create a website using built-in templates.

What is a Content Management System?

Content Management Systems come in all shapes and sizes. Chances are, if you’ve put up a Web page on a free Web page server or ISP you’ve had access to a rudimentary content management system.

Several years ago they had Personal Web page space, and to add to your pages you had to use a tool. This tool allowed anyone with an account to create a Web page from a template and put it up on the Web server. It was rudimentary, but it didn’t require knowledge of HTML and you could have a page up quickly and painlessly.

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Companies then saw that this could be useful within an organization. For example if a PR department needs to get a press release up on the Web site, often it has to go through numerous steps:

1. Write the release and get it approved
2. Send the release out on the wire
3. Send the release to the Web group
4. The Web group then converts the document to HTML and puts it on the Web site
5. Most larger companies have some sort of staging server where Web documents sit until they are pushed live
6. If a press release has sensitive information, it can’t be released to the Web group until it has been sent to the wire, but often upper management wants it on the Web site immediately

This situation causes a lot of stress for both the Web group and the PR team. It would be a lot easier if the PR team could post the release to the Web at the same time that they post it to the wire services. But, often they don’t know HTML or don’t have access to the Web site. This is where a content management system comes into play.

You have a website, or intranet. It has grown organically over time, and while it is very useful, it is far from perfect.

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Much of the content is out-of-date or inaccurate, it’s hard to find things, updating the site is complex, and the appearance is becoming dated.

Worse yet, you’ve lost track of all the pages on the site, and by having all the changes made by your skilled webmaster, the updates are piling up in their in-tray.

What was on the site last week, or last year? You couldn’t say. In the back of your mind, you know that this could leave you in a difficult position if a customer sues, but there is little that you can do.

If this sounds grim, you are not alone. In fact, it’s the natural by-product of maintaining a site using manual tools such as Dreamweaver or Frontpage.

Thankfully, these problems are what a content management system (CMS) is specifically designed to solve.

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Real estate and realtors are an industry that are in high need of CMS based web sites because of the frequent changes and updates that need to be made to properties photos and information.  With a CMS making these changes is as easy as modifying your Facebook or Myspace profile.  Both Myspace and Facebook are examples of CMS based web sites.  By using a CMS for your real estate web site you will save yourself a lot of time, hassle, and money in the long run.

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Web design is the skill of creating presentations of content (usually hypertext or hypermedia) that is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, by way of a Web browser or other Web-enabled software like Internet television clients, microblogging clients and RSS readers.

A web-content-management system (WCMS or Web CMS) is content management system (CMS) software, usually implemented as a Web application, for creating and managing HTML content. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and their associated images). A WCMS facilitates content creation, content control, editing, and many essential Web maintenance functions.

Real estate is a legal term (in some jurisdictions, notably in the USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and The Bahamas) that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings, specifically property that is fixed in location.[1] Real estate law is the body of regulations and legal codes which pertain to such matters under a particular jurisdiction and include things such as commercial and residential real property transactions. Real estate is often considered synonymous with real property (also sometimes called realty), in contrast with personal property (also sometimes called chattel or personalty under chattel law or personal property law).

Web design is a kind of graphic design intended for development and styling of objects of the Internet’s information environment to provide them with high-end consumer features and aesthetic gualities. The offered definition separates web design from web programming, emphasizing the functional features of a web site, as well as positioning web design as a kind of graphic design.

Usually the software provides authoring (and other) tools designed to allow users with little or no knowledge of programming languages or markup languages to create and manage content with relative ease.

However, in some situations the term “real estate” refers to the land and fixtures together, as distinguished from “real property,” referring to ownership of land and appurtenances, including anything of a permanent nature such as structures, trees, minerals, and the interest, benefits, and inherent rights thereof. Real property is typically considered to be Immovable property[2] The terms real estate and real property are used primarily in common law, while civil law jurisdictions refer instead to immovable property.

Most systems use a database to store content, metadata, and/or artifacts that might be needed by the system. Content is frequently, but not universally, stored as XML, to facilitate reuse and enable flexible presentation options.

The process of designing Web pages, Web sites, Web applications or multimedia for the Web may utilize multiple disciplines, such as animation, authoring, communication design, corporate identity, graphic design, human-computer interaction, information architecture, interaction design, marketing, photography, search engine optimization and typography.

* Markup languages (such as HTML, XHTML and XML)
* Style sheet languages (such as CSS and XSL)
* Client-side scripting (such as JavaScript)
* Server-side scripting (such as PHP and ASP)
* Database technologies (such as MySQL and PostgreSQL)
* Multimedia technologies (such as Flash and Silverlight)

A presentation layer displays the content to regular Web-site visitors based on a set of templates. The templates are sometimes XSLT files.

Most systems also use some form of server side caching which enables a boost of performance. This works best when the WCMS is not intended to be changed often but visits happen on a regular basis.

Web pages and Web sites can be static pages, or can be programmed to be dynamic pages that automatically adapt content or visual appearance depending on a variety of factors, such as input from the end-user, input from the Webmaster or changes in the computing environment (such as the site’s associated database having been modified).

Administration is typically done through browser-based interfaces, but some systems require the use of a fat client.

With growing specialization within communication design and information technology fields, there is a strong tendency to draw a clear line between web design specifically for web pages and web development for the overall logistics of all web-based services.

Unlike Web-site builders like Microsoft FrontPage or Adobe Dreamweaver, a WCMS allows non-technical users to make changes to an existing website with little or no training. A WCMS typically requires an experienced coder to set up and add features, but is primarily a Web-site maintenance tool for non-technical administrators.