Eric Stevens
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 07:31:46 +0200, Sandman <mr@sandman.net>wrote of the dream world in which he dwelled.

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Sandman
I am a self-employed web developer. I have developed, from scratch, my own Content Managemenet System call Atlas. I sell this to companies that want an easy way to handle their website. I run all my own websites in it as well, of course.

Eric Stevens
This woke me up. A decent Content Management System (CMS) is not a trivial thing to develop and I thought that it would be a notable achievment if Jonas had actually done this.

So I went looking for 'Jonas Eklundh', 'Atlas' and 'Content Management System' and I found that a powerful CMS system called'Atlas' and associated with the name Eklundh is by no means imaginary.

But then I found http://www.atlasproject.eu/atlas/project/en/index.html which describes the Atlas CMS development program. On the tab for 'Consortium' I found the following organisations were behind Atlas.

* Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi (UAIC) - Romania * Atlantis Consulting SA (Atlantis) - Greece * German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) * Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IBL DCL) * Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences (ICS PAS) * Institute of Technology and Development (ITD) * University of Hamburg - Research Group 'Computerphilology' (UHH) * University of Zadar (UniZD) * Tetracom Interactive Solutions LTD

Not a mention of Eklundh to be seen. On the same tab there is a list of 22 people, dripping with Professors and PhDs, who were engaged in the project. Not an Eklundh to be seen here either.

On the Tetracom site on their page http://www.tetracom.com/ilib/tetracom/products/atlas you will see:

"ATLAS is an open-source software platform for multilingual web content management ....

ATLAS is a project funded by the European Commission under the CIP ICT PSP."

I think by now it is clear that Jonas's claim "I have developed, from scratch, my own Content Managemenet System call Atlas" is not true, unless he is opening himself up to a massive trademark law suit. My suspicion is that Eklundh.Com uses the Atlas system and makes use of appropriate packages for it's clients.

Jonas is probably engaged in helping set up some of these and may even tinker with the code. But as for developing it from scratch - the idea is ridiculous.

I wasn't so much concerned with his qualifications as much as I was with his veracity. I am left with the clear impresson that there is a vast gap between what he is and what he says he is. Jonas's claims about having "developed, from scratch, my own Content Managemenet System call Atlas" is an outright lie so blatant that I can't understand why he even thought he would be able to get away with it.