Sitting down in the heat of Joomla! USA West 2010 I've had a bit of a hazard to endure what is passing on. The event, held at eBay's own something singular and awesome. What does Microsoft and eBay have in common?
Both have signed the Joomla! Contributor Agreement or the JCA. The JCA is the agreement put in order before code is contributed to the design and two of the largest companies in the technology sphere have now signed the JCA.
To be true when you sit low and remember about it this is absolutely awesome and a check of what we're doing with the Joomla! project.
I announced that Microsoft signed the JCA back in April and their share to the heart was reinforcement for the cache support Microsoft provide on Windows. This code, now in the Joomla! 1.6 trunk, will draw into the Wincache extension for PHP and allow a speed boost for running Joomla! on Windows. Since then we've kept the Joomla! Web Platform installer project up to the latest edition of Joomla! and it is in my judgment the easiest way of getting Joomla! up and working on Windows.
Over the weekend we had the declaration that eBay has signed the JCA as well. eBay is the world's largest online marketplace and is internally using Joomla! to make their portal to help enable the establishment to be data driven through analytics. At the JoomlaDay Oliver Ratzesberger, senior manager of analytics platform at eBay, demonstrated their platform utilising not only the core Joomla! product but also third party extensions such as social networking platform JomSocial, forum tool Kunena and Mosets Tree.
It is astonishing to be in a universe where Joomla!, a GPL project, is being contributed to by Microsoft with not only code in the Joomla! core but with members of the company providing support on the assembly and are starting to write documentation on our wiki. eBay have but just fall into the crease but they've been running on some very exciting stuff that I look ahead to seeing in the near future. I am also excited that both Microsoft and now eBay have been supporting Joomla! events with eBay hosting and sponsoring JoomlaDay USA West in gain to Microsoft hosting the upcoming JoomlaDay New York and JoomlaDay Washington, DC events as easily as sponsoring JoomlaDay's around the earth such as JoomlaDay Bangkok.
At the end of the day it is capital that the image that I and many others have been running on for the terminal half a ten is now being adopted and supported by some of the biggest companies in the world. I suppose that's just awful and let's work on Joomla! 1.6
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