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DotNetNuke Corp. Achieves Significant Traction in 2009
Nearly 500 Paying Customers and 50 Commercial Partners Signed During First Year
| Source: DotNetNuke Corp.
SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwire - January 26, 2010) - DotNetNuke Corp.
(http://www.dotnetnuke.com), the company behind the most widely adopted Web
Content Management Platform for Microsoft .NET, today announced it signed
nearly 500 paying customers and 50 certified
partners in 2009. The company launched its first commercial offerings
including the
Professional Edition, Elite
Edition, and Elite
Premier Edition in February 2009. The DotNetNuke Corp. online
marketplace, Snowcovered.com, also experienced significant growth in 2009
with nearly 15,000 customers completing almost 40,000 transactions.
News Highlights
-- Demand for a flexible, cost-effective Web Content Management Platform
for Microsoft .NET resulted in the signing of nearly 500 customers since
DotNetNuke Corp. released its first commercial product in February 2009.
-- DotNetNuke Corp. signed nearly 50 paying Fusion
Partners, which deliver customers ranging from startups to Fortune 100
companies with implementation services for business-critical web sites and
web applications.
-- The DotNetNuke Corp. online marketplace, Snowcovered.com, completed
nearly 40,000 transactions of third-party software extensions to almost
15,000 customers in 2009.
-- Other 2009 milestones included: Acquiring Snowcovered, the
premier online market for over 6,000 DotNetNuke modules, skins, services
and related products offered by nearly 800 third-party vendors; making
several product enhancements to the
Professional, Elite and Elite Premier Editions, most recently integrating
Telerik
RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX; moving distribution of the open source
version of DotNetNuke, the Community Edition, to CodePlex, Microsoft's premier open source
project hosting web site. In addition, Shaun
Walker, DotNetNuke's co-founder and chief architect, joined the CodePlex Foundation interim Board of
Directors; receiving the asp.netPRO Magazine 2009 Readers' Choice
Award as a leading Content Management System.
-- DotNetNuke has added several channels to engage in conversations: tweet
us @dnncorp; post a comment on our blogs; join our LinkedIn Group; or, become a fan on Facebook.
Quotes
Navin Nagiah, President and CEO at
DotNetNuke Corp.
"We exceeded our commercial expectations for 2009 with close to 500 paying
customers and more than 50 registered partners. We have been extremely
pleased with the positive market reception of the commercial editions of
our product. In 2010, we will be focused on delivering 'instant-on'
functionality to our web sites. We will integrate the modules and skins in
our marketplace, Snowcovered.com, to the DotNetNuke web content management
platform to enable users to add new functionality dynamically and in
real-time."
Thompson Knox, Vice President of Internet Strategy at SteadyRain
"As a DotNetNuke partner, we're experiencing a newfound ability to really
connect with the developer community. We are excited to see what the
addition the licensed versions of the platform can do for our clients,
within the core, that we've only been able to accomplish through the
integration of third-party or custom modules to date. Bringing more value
to clients, no matter the method, is always our number one goal."
Mike Deignan, Managing Director, SeQoya
"The DotNetNuke platform is powerful yet easy to learn, use, and integrate
with our web-based application. With the Professional Edition we have
access to tools and features that are easy for our business customers to
use and access to a rich support network."
About DotNetNuke Corp.
DotNetNuke Corp. is the steward of
the DotNetNuke open
source project, the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platform for
building web sites and web applications on Microsoft .NET. Organizations
use DotNetNuke to quickly develop and deploy interactive and dynamic web
sites, intranets, extranets and web applications. The DotNetNuke platform
is available in a free Community and
subscription-based
Professional, Elite and
Elite
Premier Editions. DotNetNuke Corp. also operates Snowcovered.com 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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