Microsoft and DotNetNuke have announced that the popular DotNetNuke Web
development framework has fully moved to the Microsoft CodePlex community
source site, enhancing an existing collaboration between the two entities.
Peter
Galli, senior communications manager on the Microsoft Platform Strategy team,
in a blog post, said DotNetNuke has decided to leverage the CodePlex
infrastructure for its core product distribution.
The open-source Web application framework DotNetNuke is written in Visual
Basic for the ASP.NET framework. Building on
an existing relationship with Microsoft and CodePlex, DotNetNuke said the
switch would begin with the DotNetNuke 4.9.1 and 5.0.0 product releases.
Said Galli:
DotNetNuke will utilize CodePlex for
download infrastructure, bandwidth and metrics reporting for its core product
offerings. Until now, DotNetNuke had been leveraging services from
SourceForge.Net. DotNetNuke is also currently the second most commonly downloaded
project on CodePlex.
In February 2008, DotNetNuke established the DotNetNuke Forge, a premier
destination for open-source collaboration on the DotNetNuke platform, and began
a partnership with Microsoft and CodePlex, although not for core product distribution.
Galli noted:
The DotNetNuke Corporation researched
the many open-source project hosting services available, and decided that
CodePlex provided the 'most reliable and dependable infrastructure, cleanest user
experience, most advanced project administration tools and highest commitment
to future innovation,' said Scott Willhite, its co-founder and community
director.
"We are excited to welcome DotNetNuke to the CodePlex community," Sara
Ford, CodePlex program manager for Microsoft, said in a statement. "As the
leading open-source Web application framework for ASP.NET,
we're looking forward to partnering with them to promote open-source
development on the Microsoft platform. We're also looking forward to hearing
the feedback from the DotNetNuke community for improving the open-source
development experience on CodePlex."
Upon seeing the news of the initial DotNetNuke-CodePlex collaboration in May
2008, James Butterworth, who identified himself as a PC repair shop owner,
posted comments on the CodePlex
blog:
This partnership looks like a really
good thing. DotNetNuke is a really good piece of software. I use it on my
company Intranet; I run a small PC Repair business in the UK.
I certainly hope this
will bring more goodness in the future. CodePlex really impress me, I am all
for open source, as if it wasn't for Open Source software, running my company
would be so much more expensive. The open source movement means I can improve
on software for my company's use, and fix any bugs.
