DNN officially cool!

On June 10th DotNetNuke Corp., the company behind the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platforms for the Microsoft .NET Framework, announced that it had been named a “Cool Vendor” in the Content Management, 2010, report published by Gartner, Inc. on April 22, 2010. 

Gartner defines “cool vendors” in content management as companies that “appeal to IT and business buyers by addressing their needs to help people relate better to information by making the information itself smarter, even as they also explore combinations of cloud computing, open source, and supplements for improved overall content management.”

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 has recently achieved a number of significant milestones, notably:

• The DotNetNuke platform has been downloaded more than 6 million times and powers more than 500,000 production web sites worldwide
• Since the launch of its commercial products in February 2009, DotNetNuke Corp. has grown from zero to nearly 700 customers for the commercial editions of its products
• The company has signed more than 90 Partner Program members (of which Chord9 is one)
• Snowcovered.com, the online market for the sale of third party DotNetNuke add-ons which offers more than 8,000 products from nearly 800 third-party vendors, completed nearly 50,000 transactions to 15,000 customers in 2009
• DotNetNuke Corp. secured $8M in Series B funding in February 2010

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Navin Nagiah, President and CEO at DotNetNuke Corp.:

“The phenomenal market traction DotNetNuke Corp. experienced in its first year demonstrates the opportunity for affordable, open source alternatives to proprietary web content management systems. We are honored to be recognized as a cool vendor in content management by Gartner and remain committed to providing DotNetNuke users with the CMS solutions they need.”

Comment

Phil Biggs, Technical Director, Chord9: This is valuable recognition for the DNN system demonstrating that it is capable of taking on an ever more professional and credible role in the coporate world.