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    <title>Welcome to OpenInteract!</title>

    <h2>Welcome to OpenInteract</h2>

    <p>OpenInteract is a web application environment written in <a
    href="http://www.perl.org/">perl</a> and geared to run on the <a
    href="http://www.apache.org/httpd.html">Apache web server</a>
    using the <a href="http://perl.apache.org/">mod_perl</a> plugin
    module.</p>

    <p>The environment is built to be not only friendly to people
    editing and changing a website's content, but also for the
    developers who can write code (or complex templates) and create
    entire applications.</p>

    <p>Data can be brought into OpenInteract a multitude of ways. You
    can use it with most any SQL database that the rock-solid perl <a
    href="http://www.symbolstone.org/technology/perl/DBI/">DBI</a>
    (Database Interface) module supports -- which is just about
    everything! (We have tested so far with <a
    href="http://www.mysql.com">MySQL</a> and <a
    href="http://www.sybase.com/products/databaseservers/ase/">Sybase
    ASE</a>. Oracle, Sybase ASA and PostgreSQL are on the short TO DO
    database list.) </p>

    <p>You will also be able to hook up with LDAP servers, CORBA data
    sources, CSV files, Perl data structures, GDBM files... the list
    goes on!</p>

    <p>This page is currently stored in your filesystem -- but it
    could just as easily be in your SQL database. Either way, it looks
    and acts like a normal web page to all your users. But to
    OpenInteract, it's all data. And you can do anything you can
    imagine with it...</p>

    <p>This site is a simple working demo of the software. It has a
    few tools installed right now, but with the packaging system of
    OpenInteract, installing new functionality is a snap!</p>

    <p>For more information, check out:</p>

    <ul>

      <li><a href="http://www.openinteract.org/">Website: OpenInteract
      for Developers</a></li>

      <li><a href="http://www.openinteract.com/">Website: OpenInteract
      for Business</a></li>

      <li><a
      href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/openinteract/">OpenInteract
      on SourceForge</a> (mailing lists, source code, etc.)</li>

      <li><a href="/SystemDoc/">System documentation</a> installed on
      your website right now!</li>

    </ul>

    <p>Good luck!</p>