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<appendix id="appendix_credits">
  <title>Credits</title>
  
  <para>We use external libraries that have been written by someone,
    get bug reports and feature requests from the users, and rely on
    infrastructure provided by third parties.
  </para>
  
  <para>So this is to say thanks for all of this. Thanks to the users,
    developers, testers, ... out there!
  </para>
  
  <section id='appendix_credits_software'> 
    <title>Software and libraries</title> 
    
    <section id='appendix_credits_software_php'> 
      <title>PHP</title> 
      <para>The number one scripting language around the world, the PHP core team
        did a very good job the last years, so we decided to use PHP for
        moregroupware instead of using Java, which was our second choice.
      </para>
    </section>
    
    <section id='appendix_credits_software_smarty'> 
      <title>Smarty</title> 
      <para>An incredibly powerful templating engine for PHP, written in PHP. It
        supports all the features you might ever need, and still is easily
        extensible. And, did I mention it is fast as well? No? It is,
        really...
      </para>
    </section>
    
    <section id='appendix_credits_software_jpgraph'> 
      <title>JPGraph</title> 
      <para>A graphing library with a lot of features. We use it to generate the
        GANTT charts available in some parts of moregroupware.
      </para>
    </section>
    
    <section id='appendix_credits_software_fpdf'> 
      <title>FPDF</title> 
      <para>This library allows you to generate PDF files without the need for PDF
        support being compiled into PHP. Great tool, and easy to use,
        too. Used for PDF generation in some parts of moregroupware.
      </para>
    </section>
    
    <section id='appendix_credits_software_adodb'> 
      <title>ADOdb</title> 
      <para>An excellent database abstraction layer. We use it in favour of
        PEAR::DB, and are very happy with it. And just in case you wonder:
        Yes, we plan to make moregroupware really portable across databases as
        soon as possible!
      </para>
    </section>
    
    <section id='appendix_credits_software_mysql'> 
      <title>MySQL</title> 
      <para>An incredibly stable and fast open source database. Nearly every open
        source project relies on MySQL. So do we. A few of our team have MySQL
        commercial support available at work, and the support is also very,
        very
      </para>
    </section>
    
  </section>
  
</appendix>
