Mura CMS
Web developmentColdFusion-based commercial CMS that powers many state agency and enterprise CF deployments. Transitioned from open-source to closed-source/commercial licensing.
Glossary · Web development
Masa CMS
Open-source ColdFusion CMS — a community fork of Mura that emerged when Mura transitioned to closed-source licensing.
Definition
In long form.
Masa CMS is an open-source ColdFusion content management system that originated as a community fork of Mura CMS after Mura's commercial-licensing transition. The Masa project preserves the open-source codebase that Mura ran on for years, with continuing community maintenance and patches. It's particularly relevant for organizations with existing Mura deployments that want to retain control over their CMS stack without commercial licensing constraints — a common consideration for state government, nonprofits, and budget-constrained institutional buyers.
In context
Masa is the answer for Mura installations that want to stay on the open-source ColdFusion CMS path. Nessim Works supports both Mura and Masa, plus migration paths between them and to modern stacks. The choice between Mura and Masa is usually about budget posture, control over the CMS roadmap, and the comfort level the client's IT team has with community-maintained open source.
Related terms
Adjacent definitions.
ColdFusion(CF)
Web developmentAdobe's tag-based application server platform (originally Allaire's) that remains in production at many state agencies and back-office systems despite predating modern JS/Node runtimes.
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