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Squiz
This article is about the software services company. For the baseball player with this nickname, see Squiz Pillion.
Squiz is an open source software services company, founded in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in 1998. The
company produces the enterprise content management system (CMS), MySource Matrix. [1]
Squiz has offices in Sydney (head office), Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart, Brisbane, Wellington, London and
Szczecin (Poland).
History
Squiz was founded in Sydney Australia in 1998 with the aim of providing new levels of control, flexibility and
efficiency in enterprise online publishing and web content management. Squiz remains privately owned by its
founders.
The founders predicted (correctly) that web content management systems would become ubiquitous for the running
of websites of any significant size and that over time the software would become a commodity, and services for the
implementation and support of CMS systems would be increasingly in demand. Correspondingly, the software was
built to meet large scale enterprise and government requirements, and Squiz's supported open source business model
means the company earns revenue through services rather than software license fees.
Squiz has grown rapidly [2] and has continued to reinvest its profits in research and development and thus drive the
product development.
In July 2009 Squiz acquired the search company Funnelback [3]
Squiz and Open Source
Squiz describes itself as a ‘ supported open source software business’. Its product development focuses purely on
MySource Matrix. This also involves the MySource Matrix developer community via the MySource Matrix web
site. The company’s revenue is derived from services relating to the implementation, ongoing support and (for some
customers) hosting of MySource Matrix implementations.
MySource Matrix
MySource Matrix is an enterprise web content management system (CMS) available as GPL licensed open source
software. A warranted version of the software is provided by Squiz.
Features
• web based administration and user interface
• seo friendly
• Scalable
Platform
MySource Matrix is developed in PHP5 and runs on Postgres or Oracle.
Competitors
MySource Matrix competes with other web content management software offerings including those of companies
such as Interwoven, Vignette, Tridion, Percussion and Alfresco.