How it started
Company history
The company was founded by Suraj Kika and Richard Chamberlain in 1999 and began development when co-founder Andy Perkins joined in 2000. The system was first developed for the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) for the UK consultation portal for Oil and Gas and Renewable Energy.
The software developed for the Offshore-SEA website, an environmental portal managed by geological and oceanographic specialists Geotek, then became Jadu Content Management Engine Version 1 - and was implemented for scientific organisations in the UK as a means to publish complex electronic documents generated in MS Word and PDF formats.
In 2001 the system was redeveloped in PHP and MySQL and a Version 2 was deployed for UK Government and Local Authorities. Based on the e-GIF standards, and using XForms, the system was deployed at the beginning of the first acceptance and adoption of open source platforms within Government. Jadu as a company has a cross platform approach, preferring to develop its software to be agnostic in terms of operating platform and development framework.
In 2008, Jadu launched a.NET compliant binary of the Jadu CMS supporting IIS, MS SQL and the.NET 2.0 framework using the Phalanger which compiles PHP to CLR (Microsoft's Common Language Runtime) effectively enabling any PHP application to run natively under the.NET framework.
Jadu have funded and are supporting the development of Phalanger, including leading the development of VisualStudio.NET support as well as other upgrades to PHP support in.NET. With this new framework under.NET 2.0 and.NET 3.0, Jadu CMS can be extended in C# or any other.NET compiled language using Visual Studio.
From Wikipedia’s article on Jadu, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2