MAXdev
What is MDPro?

Chapter 1. What is MDPro?

What is MAXdev?

MAXdev is an international community of professionals devoted to the development of high-quality open source software. MAXdev is comprised of developers, graphic designers, entrepreneurs, lawyers, translators, teachers, writers, artists and many other professional figures.

The vision of the MAXdev community is to create a collaborative environment where we can produce and promote human, scientific and professional resources for use by the Internet community. MAXdev strives to provide flexible, manageable and secure solutions in the areas of e-commerce, e-learning, virtual community management and beyond.

The MDPro Content Management System (CMS) is the first historical project of this collaboration.

What is MDPro?

MAXdev is proud to introduce MDPro, the most complete, flexible and reliable CMS available on the market.
A content management system (CMS) is an application that provides for the display and management of the contents of a web site. MDPro carries this many steps further by making this management simple yet powerful. Your MDPro powered web site can be updated in seconds without any knowledge of programming or HTML. MDPro can be configured to allow your site users to send news, comment on existing news, vote in polls, administer their own account via a simple graphical interface and much more.
Normally you must pay for technology this powerful with such simplicity. CMS software available today costs from several thousand dollars to several hundred thousand dollars. Thanks to the work of many open source development communities however, today there are a variety of no-cost CMS programs published under GNU/GPL.
Open source systems have gained popularity and matured to the point where they are used by many large companies and organizations around the world. Some of the entities taking advantage of open source systems are:

  • IBM
  • Oracle
  • Google
  • Amazon.com
  • Dreamworks
  • Kenwood
  • Incyte Geonomica
  • Ameritrade
  • Pixar Animation
  • Credit Suisse
  • New York Stock Exchange
  • PWL Euro-Subsidies (The Hague)
  • United States Army
  • NASA
  • European Commission
  • Mexico City
  • China
  • And many more...

MDPro provides an open source CMS that is "certified" and guaranteed by a highly qualified team of developers. MDPro was developed to be more versatile and modular than competing CMS programs. MDPro is comprised of a highly optimized core platform, to which you can add additional modules according to the needs of your site and users. Not only are there a variety of third-party modules available, but you are free to develop, or contract the development of customized modules and features to fit your requirements.




The MAXdev team:

MDPro is targeted to single users, institutions and businesses who require a “certified” content management system, with the warranty of a qualified developers’ team, the MAXdev team, leaving the users free to personally manage their web site, but providing steady support for installation, customization, setting, and development of parts and specific modules of the site.

The content of your website, managed with MDPro, can be updated by internal staff writers (as a company’s function, and also business people who only want to add content), and it can be configured using the permission system to allow web site visitors to submit articles, comment on previously submitted articles, participate in surveys or polls, and manage their own accounts with simple registration and account management tools. MDPro is planned to be extremely versatile and modular.

MDPro is provided with base code (the core), and enhanced modules, to meet every user’s requirements, following the Linux model (distributions adapted to users’ needs), that allows you to manage your contents in an easy and non technical way.

MAXdev represents a large and qualified international open source developers’ community made up of software developers, designers, programmers, business people, lawyers, translators, teachers, writers, artists and many more professionals.

The basic idea of this community is to create a center for research, processing, production, and promotion of scientific and professional human resources.

This provides to the internet community the possibility to realize the most flexible projects, easy to implement and manage, that range from e-commerce to e-learning, from virtual communities to library management.