• February - Venexus began testing DotNetNuke 3.0 beta as a replacement for it’s own custom ASP web framework and CMS.
• March - With the release of DNN 3.0 on March 12, Venexus started a development server for the DNN framework within the Virtual Business Framework.
• April – Venexus released a new web design using DNN 3.0

• May – Venexus adopted Gemini for its development project management and issue tracking application to manage development of VBF and DNN. Venexus upgrades an intranet site for Corban Funds using DNN.

• June – Venexus released 2 new DNN sites that month. FindNews.org,  a DNN website that now has almost 700,000 articles and news it has aggregated from global news sources…testing the limits of DNN as far as DNN and database scalability is concerned.    

       The Fan’s Voice, a website for college football sports writers and enthusiast.

• July – Venexus upgraded Ryan ALM, Inc.’s website to use DNN. Venexus also begins developing custom DNN modules for existing clients.
• August – Venexus begins integrating it’s BCS, VBF, BES into DNN
• September – Digging deep into the code now and releases 2 more client websites.
• October – Venexus begins updating internal processes to utilize DNN where convenient. ChipTricks.com DNN development begins.

• November – Venexus releases a new skin design for it's website.

      Development of DNN FIND begins.  

      PensionMonitor.com is released.

• December – Venexus adopts DNN as it’s front-end for VBF and begins commercial development of DNN modules for new clients. Venexus joins the DotNetNuke Benefactor Program.

What an exciting year! DotNetNuke has let us push boundaries in web development that were unfathomable in ASP/VB. In summary, Venexus released 14 new DotNetNuke websites this year. We are heavily entrenched in DNN development and upgrading all of our processes to utilize the power of DNN and .Net.

What is in store for 2006?

• DNN 4!  - We are testing it now. Can’t say it is really ready for production yet, but we are close! With further testing and upgrading all modules, we hope to be running all of our client sites in DNN 4 early this year.
• Venexus DNN Modules – Venexus will be releasing new modules for the DNN community. With the release of Scott Schecter’s NukeSyndicate, we plan on utilizing the power of RSS syndication to keep our module releases up-to-date and users informed. Stay tuned for more
• DNN FIND Search Engine - We are starting to crawl DNN related websites for DNN FIND to provide an index for others to use to do their own DNN research. This will be a DNN only search engine.
• DNN FIND Spider – We plan on releasing a packaged version of our multithreaded VB.Net crawler/spider to satisfy ISV requirements called DNN FIND Spider. A corresponding DNN module will be released for utilizing crawl data as a replacement for default DNN search.
• DNNModDev.org – a website devoted to DNN module developers?

I think that will be enough to keep us very busy the first part of this year, not including normal operations and custom DNN module development. I look forward to seeing IT budgets open their wallet in the first part of this year to upgrade their static and stagnant HTML or ASP websites. Someone just needs to show these companies how DNN can save them time and money, all while providing a powerful collaboration environment. I look forward to this exciting year and feel that with the new DotNetNuke Benefactor Program, DNN will finally get the recognition that it deserves. They built it, its up to us to make sure the sheeple will follow.

Sunday, January 01, 2006 11:37:10 PM (US Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)        DotNetNuke General  |