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DotNetNuke Corp. Attracts Customers, Wins Industry Accolade
Funding Enables Expansion for Provider of ASP.NET-Based Open Source Web Content Management and Application Development Framework
| Source: DotNetNuke
SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwire - May 26, 2009) - DotNetNuke Corp. today announced it
has sold more than 50 subscriptions for the company's DotNetNuke
Professional Edition less than two months after the product launched Feb. 17.
DotNetNuke Corp. is the steward of the industry leading
DotNetNuke® web content management and application development
framework open source project. Coupled with the recent funding announcement, the
opening of new offices in British Columbia, Canada, and San Mateo, Calif.,
and award notoriety, the DotNetNuke sales momentum demonstrates the market
need for web content management and application development tools that
enhance the industry's most popular platform, Microsoft ASP.NET.
News Highlights
-- Since its introduction Feb. 17, the DotNetNuke Professional Edition has
attracted more than 50 customers.
-- After raising Series A capital in Nov. 2008, DotNetNuke Corp. appointed its first vice president of
sales,
Tom Kress, to lead the sales effort for the first commercial edition of
DotNetNuke.
-- In addition to moving DotNetNuke corporate headquarters to a larger
office space at 1825 S. Grant St. in San Mateo, the company opened an
engineering office in
Abbotsford, British Columbia to accommodate further growth of its team
and established a UK presence to better service customer needs worldwide.
-- Announced at Microsoft's TechEd event May 11, DotNetNuke was recognized
as a leading Content Management System by the readers of asp.netPRO magazine. For the asp.netPRO 2009 Readers' Choice
Awards, more than 8,000 aspnetpro.com visitors voted on approximately
300 products in 25 categories.
-- In this quarter, registered DotNetNuke community members grew to more
than 700,000 since the launch of the open source project. In addition,
total downloads of DotNetNuke grew to more than 6.5 million.
Quotes
Navin Nagiah, President and CEO of DotNetNuke Corp.:
"This year has marked exponential growth for DotNetNuke Corp. Investments
from August Capital and Sierra Ventures last year have helped us expand the
team and offices to develop award-winning DotNetNuke enhancements which
resulted in 50 sales of the new Professional Edition less than two months
after launch."
About DotNetNuke Corp.
DotNetNuke Corp. is the steward of the DotNetNuke open source project, the
most widely adopted framework for building websites and web applications on
Microsoft ASP.NET. Organizations use DotNetNuke to quickly develop and
deploy interactive and dynamic websites, intranets, extranets and web
applications. The DotNetNuke framework is available in both a free Community and a
subscription based Professional Edition. DotNetNuke Corp. also operates the
DotNetNuke Marketplace
where users purchase third party software modules and skins. Founded in
2006 and funded by Sierra Ventures and August Capital, DotNetNuke Corp. is
headquartered in San Mateo, Calif. For additional information, visit
www.dotnetnuke.com.
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