Thursday, January 8, 2009

DotNetNuke®- expands its Leadership Team

Larry Augustin, angel investor and distinguished open source icon, has been inducted the Company's Board of Directors. Prior to this, Mr. Augustin was working as a Business Advisor to the Company. 

"Larry brings in an incredible wealth of knowledge and experience to DotNetNuke Corporation," said Navin Nagiah, DotNetNuke Corporation's CEO. "Larry is going to be a wonderful Director and we're excited and privileged that he has recognized DotNetNuke as a prevailing force in today's software industry."

Larry Augustin humbly said,"The momentum behind DotNetNuke is phenomenal. With 5.6 Million cumulative downloads, growing at the rate of 140,000 per month, and 12,000 new publicly facing Web sites built on this platform going live each month, the success of the DotNetNuke platform is unquestionable. I'm looking forward to helping the management team leverage the mass adoption of DotNetNuke into a scalable business model that delivers significant value to customers."

About DotNetNuke®

DotNetNuke® is an open source web application framework ideal for creating, deploying and managing interactive web, intranet and extranet sites. Based on its liberal open source licensing model and superior capabilities, DotNetNuke® has become the Microsoft industry standard framework for constructing professional web applications. The exponential growth of the project ecosystem is a testament to the fact that the framework satisfies the broadest set of customer requirements, and has the most innovative and committed management team. For the past 5 years, DotNetNuke's capabilities have been aggressively driven by community feedback,strategic partnerships, and market demand.

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Microsoft wallops deal for Live Search

Microsoft is eager to have two new distributers for its Live Search, a much-needed boost. 

The company has announced on Wednesday a global deal with Dell that will see Live Search be the default search engine and a Windows Live toolbar bundled on the size of consumer and small-business PCs sold by the computer maker over the next three years. This is in addition to a five-year deal with Verizon Wireless. It's the most recent endeavor for Microsoft, which has been trying--and struggling--for the past four years to build a search business that can offer a substantive competitor to Google. It is the time for heavy propagation according to Microsoft Senior Vice President Yusuf Mehdi.

Microsoft is into two other moves one is also, one is including building its own ad-serving engine, and spending billions to acquire Aquantive, and trying promotions such as its Live Search Cash back and other efforts designed to give consumers a financial incentive to use its search engine.

According to Microsoft/Verizon deal, Microsoft Live Search will be preloaded on new Verizon Wireless phones and smart phones to offer all local and Internet searches. Microsoft will also power search for Verizon Wireless' VCast content, allowing subscribers to search for ringtones, full music tracks, videos, and other VCast entertainment content and news. Also as part of the deal, Microsoft will handle all search and display advertising for Verizon's mobile Web services.

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