Joomla is 'the' Platform

Joomla is ‘the’ Platform

In the past 6 years Joomla has seen an immense growth capturing almost 3% of the internet. Most still see Joomla as a CMS. Even Joomla.org states :

Joomla is the worlds most popular open source content management system. With 2.7 % of the internet running on Joomla the software is used by individuals, small-sized & medium size businesses and large organizations worldwide to easily create a variety if websites and web applications.

Reality is that Joomla is no longer just a cms. After 6 years of collaborative innovation Joomla has become a web platform, extendible by over 8000 extensions build on a powerful framework.

We use this platform to build products for ourselves, for our clients, and for our peers. The framework that sit’s at it’s heart is our shared toolkit we (should) improve together so that those products can thrive.

In my keynote at the Joomladay Brazil I talked about past, present and future. I tried to establish why out of 100’s of CMS systems it has grown so rapidly, looked at the current state of Joomla and challenges that lie ahead growing Joomla as a platform.

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