Can anyone tell me the difference between mambo and joomla?

I've been using mambo but looked at Joomla and it looked almost identical.

I think Joomla is made by Mambo programmers....

Im not sure what happened, but I think Mambo is going to cease and Joomla is the new version (or something like that)

weird.

I guess ill switch to joomla then

All the developers left Mambo because they didn't like where their parent company (Mira) was taking it. They then created Joomla.

Mambo may not completely cease to exist, but already Joomla has made vast improvments over Mambo.

Thanks for the info. It baffles me how companies make money creating open source systems but the jobs ive seen advertised seem to pay decent salaries. Wonder why a company would create a great system like mambo and then give it away free. (not complaining BTW I think mambo is great)