Magnolia Conference

So it has began ... the first Magnolia Conference ever. And as a good omen, the conference planned for up to 80 participants is completely sold out. Considering the credit crunch and everybody trying to save a money, this seems as a very good sign of the attention the product commands. The 15 speakers will try to get attention of participants in 2 parallel tracks. The conference was preceded by a Partner Day where participating Magnolia partners met and exchanged their experience with working with Magnolia product. Pascal opened a conference with brief overview of the history of Magnolia and some statistics showing the growing popularity of the project over the time. Some of the facts: Right now there are estimated 2500 CE installations over 50 modules, many of those are open source as well and more and more are contributed by partners and users New reports from analysts: CMS Watch Content Here Gartner The one idea that could have been felt behind the keynote could be phrased as "Is it possible to make success with OS project in current environment?" And the talk answered to this question was, yes you can, but you need to keep inovating and attract more attention then ever before. And you need to do all that without actually need for massive investment. Having heard that, one has to wonder how you can achieve something like that and Pascal and Boris answered this as well - the integration is the key. In orde...

Date: September, 10 2009
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/rah003/archive/2009/09/10/magnolia-conference

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