Snowcovered acquisition is fully integrated as new store debuts
In addition to the number of applications, the new store sports a number of new features making it easier for both customers to shop for apps and plug ins as well as for developers to sell thier products. In a case of eating their own dog food, the new store is now running on DotNetNuke itself and is available from within the DNN application. Many of the leading developers of DotNetNuke 3rd party addons heralded the new store as a giant leap forward.
While the overall CMS market is broad with a wide range of quality open source options, within the .Net world DNN has been the overall market leader for some time. Of course, anything open source running on Windows draws some criticism from the Redmond Haters, DNN has certainly come a long way since its early days. The company has added several high quality executives including Mitch Bishop as VP of marketing some months ago.
I spoke to Bishop last week ahead of this release and he was very excited about the new store. He thinks this is a first in the open source CMS world. I asked him how he contrasted this to WordPress plugins. He said that while plugins add a great deal to WordPress, the variety of add ons for DNN, as well as the tight integration and e-commerce options make the DNN store very, very attractive to DNN developers.
According to Bishop, some of the featured products in the Store include:
- Custom form creation modules
- Event calendar and registration modules for complete events management
- Media management and delivery extensions that simplify video and image handling
- Dynamic registration modules to manage user registration and profile updates
- Shopping cart solutions that enable eCommerce
- Document management extensions that add to the already robust document management capabilities of the DotNetNuke platform
- Modules that help you manage and display multimedia content
- Friendly URL translators that transform site URLs to optimize for search engines
- Eye-catching and user-friendly sliders
- Thousands of site design templates
So if you are a DNN user, today is your lucky day. Go check out what the new DNN Store has for you. If you are looking for a CMS solution and comfortable with the .Net platform, you should check out DNN as a company that certainly has a lot of momentum behind them.
