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Joomla! Surpasses 15 Million Downloads

Bill Hartzer

Open Source Matters , Inc. OSM), the not-for-profit organization that supports the Joomla! Project , today announced that Joomla!, the industry’s leading open source content management system (CMS), has been downloaded more than 15 million times from JoomlaCode. “Back in June 2009, Joomla!

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Open Community Case Study – GoPlow

SocialFish

Having this clarity at the outset was helpful because it drove their decision to work with a platform that not only delivered the functionality they needed initially but is also highly flexible for developing needs – open source Joomla. In the current Big Shots competition people take a fun or creative photo with the magazine.

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7 Steps to Creating Million-Dollar Web Apps (And a Big Announcement)

Viper Chill

To cut a long story short, what I learned here is that people rarely want to have to learn a new system, and they would rather use what they’re used to like Joomla, WordPress or even building static HTML sites if they can. The open source community didn’t become big by protecting stuff, it became big by sharing.