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PHP developer app to go open source

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Matt Loney Builder UK

Published: 02 Mar 2005 15:45 GMT

An Italian developer of PHP tools plans to make its entry-level application open source.

Maguma, based in Bolzano, will make the source code of Maguma Studio available for free download and for "community participation" according to marketing director Alexander Comploj.

Comploj said Maguma will continue to make money from sales of its Workbench software, which is marketed as a more heavyweight development environment with a number of customisable plug-ins. Maguma Studio comes with a CVS Manager, FTP handler, project management component and coding aids for PHP and HTML. The open source version of Studio will be called, simply, OpenStudio.

Maguma currently licenses its studio software on a per-workstation basis, using MAC addresses to identify distinct machines.

OpenStudio is part of Maguma's strategy to move towards open source, said Comploj, though he did not say if or when Workbench would be made open source, and if so how Maguma would then make money.

Maguma has its roots in open source: co-founder Tobias Ratschiller previously worked on PHPMyadmin, the MySQL admin tool.