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

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.

It was so easy to set up for us non-programmers. we’ve been using it for a couple years without a problem.

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.

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:
http://www.micr...startupzone.com

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.

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.

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.

Well deserved, I must say.