DotNetNuke Corporation, the owner and maintainer of the open source web application framework that goes by the same name, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series A venture funding from August Capital and Sierra Ventures.
DotNetNuke is a web application framework written in VB.NET, and is used by developers worldwide to create, deploy and manage interactive web, intranet and extranet sites. Its DotNetNuke.com community website has over 630,000 registerered members, and the open source framework (the application is licensed under a single BSD open source license) has been downloaded over 5.5 million times to date.
Details about the amount of funding were not provided, but a blog post on the community site by Shaun Walker (the original creator of DotNetNuke and President/Chief Architect of the corporation) reveals that it took DNN 18 months to close the financing and that it ultimately reflected the ‘market rate for a project of their size and stature’.
Congratulations to DotNetNuke on this funding!
Well deserved, I must say.
Don’t go nuking.
DotNetNuke is not a framework – its a portal system/CMS.
Agree with @Arun DotNetNuke is not a framework.
Hmmm my experiences with the DNN CMS have never been that good. The community Isn’t very well organised and the modules are generally flimsy and ugly at best. This might be due to the fact that Microsoft based programmers arn’t generally used to open source style collaboration.
The competition: Drupal, Xoops and Joomla are far more robust solutions and don’t rely on heavily licensed closed source back ends. This makes them a lot more flexible. I wish them well but they should remember the best Open SOurce CMS’s never had any funding just decent communities.
some do ok at codeplex :p
however I think the problems with the community stem from the aweful forum software. The site could do with a complete overhaul and be made a lot more simpler to get to the info you need.
I think a lot of these DotNetNuke stereotypes are still floating around from the early days. The product and the community have both been quietly evolving over the last few years.
The project has a ton of potential and is steadily gaining momentum. I think we’ll continue to see a lot of the big complaints addressed/resolved in the coming months.
Arun, DNN is a framework for building web applications, how you choose to use it is completely up to you. Simply creating a content portal, or creating a full blow application is well within reason of the framework.
Oh god, copy PHPNuke and Joomla on .NET IIS.
A platform pretty much abandoned since it’s inception except for die hard Bill Gates partners. Adobe is promoting Zend Platform now, and everybody has already pretty much migrated to PHP that *was* on .NET in the early 2000’s.
Microsoft would find series A funding for a popsicle salesman selling .NET popsicles to Eskimos.
Apply here popsicle salesmen of the world:
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Congrats to DNN, its a works well as a CMS. I have it installed on my Home Server
I hope DNN gets its stuff together. Drupal is walking all over it in the client community I deal with. They wall want Drupal Drupal (or even Joomla) but say DNN and they say “huh?” I love working in DNN (still has some issues to work more nicely with C# and I think they should work on better porting to sharepoint (a lot of other talk we hear from clients b/c of name recognition) but overall DNN is great and has a lot of great tools and features as well as a supportive community- sooooo I hope they spend some of that money on branding and advertising, seriously.
I use DotNetNuke to power PokerDIY.com, a social network for poker players. I have used it for the last 3 years since it’s inception and it’s getting better all the time. It scales well, is flexible and free.
This funding will help push it into the mainstream and tidy it up a bit (when you have a lot of different developers working on a project there will be a few different standards and styles mixed in). The DNN Corp’s job is to tidy it up and bring structure to the the roadmap and future.
The modules (Disclaimer: I am a module developer) are immature compared to other CMS/Frameworks like the more established ones (e.g PHPNuke) but this will improve. I think this move will force the overall standard to improve (I’ve seen this in every market – when the first Pocket PC came out the apps/games were rubbish until the big players got involved and set the standard).
@Darren – agreed – the DNN site is way below par and makes finding information a nightmare. Hopefully they’ll focus on this over the next few months.
Hey, we use DNN to power http://granitestatepoker.com
It was so easy to set up for us non-programmers. we’ve been using it for a couple years without a problem.
DNN is an example for bad programming and usability.
Dotnetnuke is great, I have been using for a few years. Being a module developer (C#) I can say its easy to maintain and clients love it as it lets them easily modify content.
I wonder if this will spur more interest in Community Server, another CMS on the Microsoft platform that just seems to teeter on the edge between obscurity and mass adoption. From my experience, they are much better suited for competing with Joomla and Drupal.
Still, once BuddyPress gets baked I think both DNN and CS will have a much more difficult task validating themselves to the open source community, and thereby limiting their adoption and revenue potential.
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I just thought I’d show some case studies from DNN based projects for those in the PHP/Droople/Joomla camp that believe DNN isn’t a framework.
Also, of note, many of these case studies use Dojo on DNN. This is of interest because many people feel Dojo is a LAMP stack toolkit only.
http://www.thes...46/Default.aspx
I am not suggesting many of the PHP and Linux based CMS’s aren’t excellent tools for specific projects, I am simply suggesting that DNN is in fact a web based framework and not simply a page/blog tool like many might seem to suggest.
To Your Success,
Brad