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EllisLab, Inc.
Type	Private
Founded	Los Angeles, CA (2001)
Headquarters	Bend, Oregon
Key people	Rick Ellis, CEO; Derek Jones, CTO; Leslie Camacho, VP; Derek Allard, TA
Industry	Software & Programming
Products	ExpressionEngine CodeIgniter pMachinePro
Services	EngineHosting
Revenue	Unknown
Website	ellislab.com

EllisLab, based in Bend, Oregon, develops software applications written in the PHP programming language.^[1] The company is privately owned and has to date accepted no venture capital funding of any kind. Since the company's founding in January 2002, it has released three different applications to the public. The first, pMachine Pro, is no longer developed, but was weblog software that had both a free and licensed version. Although it's quite out of date at this point, the last version of pMachine Pro continues to be available free.

pMachine Pro has been completely replaced by ExpressionEngine, which is a more general purpose content management system written in object-oriented PHP and using MySQL for storing data. It comes in three flavors, a free version named "ExpressionEngine Core," which is free for personal use, a "Personal" version and a "Commercial" version. The underlying code is identical in all cases, although there are several modules held back from the "Core" version.

The third application, CodeIgniter, is an open source rapid application development framework with particular emphasis on a very small footprint.

1 ExpressionEngine
2 CodeIgniter
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

ExpressionEngine

ExpressionEngine is a Content Management System developed by EllisLab. It is available in a free "Core Version", and in both "Personal" and "Commercial" versions after paying a one-time fee. The current version is 1.6.7. Version 2.0 was announced for release in "the summer of 2008", however this was put back to an unspecified date later in the year,^[2] and has yet to ship as of May 28th, 2009. EllisLab has stated the new version of ExpressionEngine will be built on the CodeIgniter framework.^[3]

ExpressionEngine is intended to be simpler to use than other content management systems; for instance, it requires no knowledge of PHP, and has extensive online documentation.

CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter

Developer(s)	EllisLab, Inc.
Stable release	1.7.1 / 2009-02-10; 4 months ago
Written in	PHP
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Web application framework
License	Apache/BSD-style open source license
Website	www.codeigniter.com

CodeIgniter is an open source web application framework for use in building dynamic web sites with PHP. "Its goal is to enable [developers] to develop projects much faster than...writing code from scratch, by providing a rich set of libraries for commonly needed tasks, as well as a simple interface and logical structure to access these libraries."^[4] The first public version of CodeIgniter was released on February 28, 2006.^[5] The latest stable version 1.7.1 was released February 10, 2009.

CodeIgniter is most often noted for its speed when compared to other PHP frameworks.^[6]^[7]^[8] In a critical take on PHP frameworks in general, PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf spoke at frOSCon in August 2008, noting that he liked CodeIgniter "because it is faster, lighter and the least like a framework".^[9]

Kohana was forked from CodeIgniter 1.5.4 in 2007, as the community frustrated with CodeIgniter's lack of bug fixes and inclusion of new features requested by the community.