Anahita™ is a developer friendly and open source social networking engine for building the very foundations of your social web project or business idea.

Anahita follows the correct Nodes-Graphs-Stories architecture of a social network. Unlike other cookie cutter alternatives in the market who focus on features lists, Anahita™ provides a truly organic and scalable solution that grows and evolves as the business ecosystem changes.

Anahita framework and platform is an ideal solution for developing any type of web services and web application that is in a social networking context. A few examples are online learning, community markets, citizen journalism, Project Management sites, Intranets, and social coding.

Anahita project has been initiated by 2 of the Purplerat Co-Founders: Rastin Mehr from rmd Studio Inc. and Ash Sanieyan from Peerglobe Technology

Nooku Framework is a powerful MVC Rapid Application Development Framework that runs alongside Joomla's own framework. Nooku Framework provides excellent out-of-the-box security features. The great design patterns based architecture makes the developed applications very flexible: all your code automatically becomes re-usable, extendible and replaceable. Nooku Framework is available under the GPL license from Nooku.org/framework.html

Joomla! is an award-winning and one of the world's most popular open source content management systems (CMS), which enables you to build and maintain websites and host web applications.

Providing both a CMS platform and software development framework Joomla! is perhaps one of the first technologies that closed the gap between the web development and software development worlds. That is compare to CMS solutions such as Wordpress and Drupal which have roots in the web development world and provide no software development framework, and solutions such as Ruby on Rails or CakePHP that provide all the low level software development libraries but no our of box CMS tools.

Joomla! is available from Joomla.org website under the GPL2 license

Wordpress is perhaps the most popular and most user friendly open source blogging platform in the world developed by Automattic.com and it is being used on high traffic websites such as CNN and New York Times blogs. Wordpress is extendible by using plugins and it has a very good reputation for being user friendly and writer friendly. Their automatic update system has also made the process of patching and updating Wordpress application and plugins quite painless and simple. Wordpress is also entering the Social Networking realm using their recent project BuddyPress.com