Mambo is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything - from simple websites to complex corporate applications. The Mambo Development Team focuses on building a solid application framework rather than on add-ons that are typically found in many portal solutions. This keeps the Mambo core extremely lightweight and efficient, making it easier for anybody to extend Mambo through custom third party component and modules that directly serve their needs.

Mambo is released under the GNU General Public license (GNU GPL).

Mambo Open Source software is different from the normal models for portal software. Mambo is easy to install and administer and it is reliable too. Once it is up and running, Mambo doesn't even require the user or administrator of the system to know HTML to operate it.

Following are the features of Mambo:
· Completely database driven site engines
· Fully editable and manageable News, products or services sections
· Fully customizable layouts including left, center and right menu boxes
· Easy image upload to own library or for use anywhere on the site
· Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results
· Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris and AIX

Mambo comes with 10 built-in modules, a WYSIWIG editor, site statistics, an admin interface, multi-language support, custom module support, and more.