Seems it is very hard to spread the news about CMSity around the world, and acquire some user base of this project. Till now I did few commercial deployments of CMSity, however the cmsity.com page hits look really miserable.

I wrote mails to many CMS magazines asking to drop a note about my project. However only two of them replied and posted something on their sites about CMSity. So I still miss some more reviews that can put a breathe into the project. But it seems my mails are ignored by majority of big CMS related sites making very hard to promote new project like CMSity nowadays.

Since I believe this software presents great value and outperforms other popular solutions I consider releasing it as open-source, however probably not GPL but some license that will force the code to stay by the author (me), deny all the forks, making all community changes happen to be included in the source code base.

Open-source is a great idea, but I have seen too many projects that were just bloated, forked and spoiled by masses of developers that were just about put something of themselves in the project regardless of quality of the included changes, missing overall sense and directions of the project itself. That is why I decided to keep the code closed initially, while giving the licenses for free, but it seems non-open source project are just kicked out of the focus today, and releasing the source code is a "must" to gain the momentum.

It seems that CMSity is at least 5x faster than WordPress. Those results are underrated since I used my own WP installation having 3 users and 250 entries, and ALLPlayer's CMSity installation backup having ~8'000 users and 2'000 entries.

Big thanks to Mike Johnston for his immediate response to my mails and writing great introductory article at: http://cmscritic.com/introducing-cmsity-one-of-the-smallest-cms-on-the-market

Demo sites contains L&F and templates exactly as they are bundled within install ZIP files + some extra sample content (sample forum & blog). You may expect that your initial CMSity installation will look the same. Have fun!

Currently ALLPlayer.org site has almost 5'000 registered users today, 7 language versions.

CMSity bundle comes with Free license that you may use on any server for any purposes. If you want to know more about the licenses have a look at Comparison.

New features will be released as 1.1 version, so keep an eye on the Downloads and our RSS for updates.

You may wonder if 199€ is attractive price. Well I hope it is. First of all, most of you will find Free version,  that can be used for any purposes, enough. Having in mind that Free comes already with forums, blogs, RSS and all functionality known from advanced systems.

Features available for those extra 199€ enable CMSity to be used on "enterprise" level sites working with many languages, having complicated document levels and access control. So once you find CMSity Free great  for yourself, you may find it useful for your company or your commercial web projects too, where 199€ isn't much.