Now we know what Microsoft want really

No surprise.

DotNetNuke, a Web content management platform, is the largest open source project in the Microsoft ecosystem. It's also the most widely adopted WCM (Web Content Management) platform built on Microsoft .Net,
boasting 6 million downloads since launching in early 2009.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/open-source-net-based-conte...

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http://www.dotnetnuke.com/

Comment by Brian "Sully" Sullivan on August 20, 2010 at 8:50am: There are several others. Umbraco is considered another. As I understand it, Microsoft signed the contributor agreement because there are those within the company which see a value in moving away from ASP to PHP. I'm just grateful that they're willing to host Joomla!Day DC for us.

Comment by Brian "Sully" Sullivan on August 20, 2010 at 8:51am: Meant to say, Umbraco is considered a better .net CMS than DotNetNuke by many.

Comment by ssnobben on August 20, 2010 at 9:33am: ...see a value in moving away from ASP to PHP. :) Dont think so - on the contrary I believe.

Personally I think they prefer to do this strategy to get access to all customers in the php world also and later on in future drag them into their ASP solution swamp and all their "new" CMS alike products like SharePoint et al when customers grow and are "enterprise ready".

Comment by Mustaq Sheikh on August 20, 2010 at 12:10pm: For a serious look at this, see this

Comment by Amy Stephen on August 21, 2010 at 3:09am: Ssnobben - I have no idea what you are suggesting comes after "..."?

Money? More installed base? Part of some of that sweet PHP action? Free software projects to begin using SQL Server? Windows Servers? Enterprise to stay on the MS Platform as they begin using Free Software? All of the above?

Was there ever any confusion on that?

Is there a problem with that?

Comment by Amy Stephen on August 21, 2010 at 3:11am: Mustaq - are you Joomors? If so, don't tell me (but I LOVE LOVE LOVE you!)

Comment by Joe LeBlanc on August 21, 2010 at 10:18am: From what I've been told, the arm of Microsoft that's reaching out to Joomla (and the PHP community at large) realizes they aren't going to get programmers to switch to the .Net framework. However, they're very much interested in selling licenses of Windows Server and SQL Server. If there's anything they can do to get people to host on Windows (including making PHP on Windows easy), they're interested.

Comment by ssnobben on August 21, 2010 at 1:22pm: Thanks Amy - for this one Joomors..:)

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