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Microsoft officially signs on as a Joomla open source code contributor
In an exalted, excited and exclamation-rife blog post, Joomla's development coordinator Sam Moffatt has just announced Microsoft's official status as a Joomla Contributor. He makes it sound like Microsoft has never been involved with GNU GPL work before, but, while nothing could be further from the truth -- have you ever seen CodePlex? Nevertheless, Microsoft's involvement with the second largest PHP project in the world is surely a Good Thing.
From Joomla's point of view, the advantages are obvious --like better Microsoft IIS support. Joomla has long been Apache-oriented, but with Microsoft on board, full IIS support shouldn't be far off.
What Microsoft stands to gain is a little more nebulous: it already has Sharepoint Server for enterprise customers, and an open-source ASP.NET CMS called Orchard. My guess is that Microsoft is using Joomla somewhere, either internally or for an as-yet unannounced site.
[via ZDNet. Apologies for not appropriately exclaiming each and every utterance of Joomla!™®© I just can't do it. Incidentally, if anyone knows what the biggest PHP project is, let us know!]
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Subscribe to commentsReader567Apr 29th 2010 8:58AM
My guess for the largest PHP project would be Facebook
Sebastian AnthonyApr 29th 2010 9:04AM
Ooh! That sounds about right :)
skalpaApr 29th 2010 11:17AM
Well the largest PHP projects in the world could be many things, but Joomla is not in the list...
If you talk about released products, then by far you get first:
- Drupal
- Mediawiki
- phpMyAdmin
- Wordpress
But after it's hard to say: Mediawiki is used on Wikipedia by billions of users... Drupal on the other side is used on millions of websites...
t3yf5gApr 29th 2010 11:34AM
Drupal has the most complicated template system. Mixing the admin and public site in one template is horrible. Joomla keeps them separate as should be.
devApr 29th 2010 9:23AM
Microsoft is approaching my beloved Joomla...I'm scared!
MikeApr 29th 2010 5:22PM
Actually, it's trivial in Drupal to separate the Admin template from the main template (you just set the Admin Theme). Also, I for one *like* having an integrated admin/public template for my sites.
Also, regarding this specific news, Microsoft also got on-board with Drupal at last weeks DrupalCON in San Francisco, so it just seems that Microsoft is hedging their bets and supporting everything.
Just go to www.microsoft.com/web and look at their Gallery. They have Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, and most other systems. Interesting that Drupal is in the "Blog" category instead of "Content Management" category ;)
Also, when you download the Acquia Drupal installer from the Microsoft/web site, you apparently are already given the choice to use Apache or IIS (according to the Microsoft rep at DrupalCON last week).
tracker1Apr 30th 2010 6:08PM
It's probably so they can streamline the product so that it can be easily installed via the Web Platform Installer. A pretty nice tool from MS that will update IIS, and install various frameworks and support applications. see http://www.microsoft.com/web/
KaraMay 5th 2010 5:23PM
*whines* The second paragraph of this article has an incomplete sentence!
"He makes it sound like Microsoft has never been involved with GNU GPL work before, but, while nothing could be further from the truth -- have you ever seen CodePlex? " doesn’t make sense.
But what? While what? You never finished the sentence! Maybe what was meant was "...work before, but nothing could be further from the truth--have you ever seen CodePlex?" =X
Also in the third paragraph, in the part that says, "...been Apache-oriented, but with Microsoft on board, full IIS support shouldn't be far off" the comma needs to be after the word "but" not before it. When you put a dependant clause inside a sentence (and 'with Microsoft on board' is a dependant clause) you show it is supportive by surrounding it with commas and you should be able to take out what is inside the commas and have the sentence still make sense. However, if we take out what’s in the commas in that sentence ("Joomla has long been Apache-oriented full IIS support shouldn't be far off") what is left is a run on sentence.
I'm not trying to be a grammar troll, its just that this kind of stuff just really really really bothers me, especially when its an article on a well traveled website... T_T