As I The announcement was made during the first day of Joomla Day West 2010 in San José, California.
Collaboration using Joomla
VP of eBay
Known as “community analytics,” the initiative will be accessible by eBay’s 16,400 employees, and will incorporate social aspects of active collaboration, including content creation, sharing and open discussion. Joomla CMS supports eBay’s expansion of community-oriented knowledge sharing and information discovery.
Bob Page, eBay vice president for the analytics platform, is excited:
eBay has always made it a key priority to encourage employees to collaborate and drive business innovation.
We are working with the open source community to elevate insightful ideas and innovations across our company, from our greatest resources, our employees.
The system is currently being rolled out to employees of eBay worldwide.
eBay will contribute to the Joomla community
With the largest commercial data warehouse in the world, more than 100 times larger than the Library of Congress, eBay requires immense computing capabilities to mine and decipher actionable data. The new community analytics initiative enables employees to source and analyze massive amounts of data to power ideas and learning across the company. eBay will also contribute back to the open-source community.
Ryan Ozimek, president of Open Source Matters, the not-for-profit created to provide organization, legal, and financial support to the Joomla project, says:
eBay is a welcomed addition to the Joomla open source community. With such a large data demand, eBay is pioneering open-source employee-based projects for the enterprise.
eBay told me that it’s early in the relationship. Thus, there are no concrete time lines at this time, but eBay does plan to contribute to the Joomla project.
Why is this good for Joomla?
You might say: Why is this so big? The solution itself might not be too complicated in terms of functionality. And there are sites with lots more users than the 16000+ employees of eBay. The way I see it, the biggest thing about this project for Joomla is the publicity it will give us.
eBay is huge, and people all over the world use it. 16000+ employees of this company will have first-hand experience with Joomla. And prospective users of Joomla will be able to look to eBay for credibility. Now that I can tell my clients eBay uses Joomla, I have another strong selling point for the system and the concept of Open Source.
In the long run, the experience eBay gathers during the process might prove valuable to the future of Joomla. eBay obviously has a vast experience in running a large-scale service, and with developing online systems. It's quite obvious that they will have something to bring to the table.
I'm looking forward to seeing where this is going in the future.
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About Joomla Day West 2010
The announcement coincides with Joomla Day USA West 2010 being held on the eBay/PayPal North campus in San Jose, Calif. today through Sunday, Oct. 3. The event is showcasing the latest developments and best practices within the Joomla open source community, including a speech from Oliver Ratzesberger, senior director of analytics platform at eBay.
About eBay Inc
Founded in 1995 in San Jose, Calif., eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) connects millions of buyers and sellers globally on a daily basis through eBay, the world's largest online marketplace, and PayPal, which enables individuals and businesses to securely, easily and quickly send and receive online payments. We also reach millions through specialized marketplaces such as StubHub, the world's largest ticket marketplace, and eBay classifieds sites, which together have a presence in more than 1,000 cities around the world. For more information about the company and our global portfolio of online brands, visit www.ebayinc.com.
About Joomla!
Joomla is the world’s most popular open source CMS (content management system). With 2.5 percent of the web running on Joomla, the CMS is used by individuals, small and medium-sized business, and large organizations worldwide to easily create and build a variety of websites and web-enabled applications. Due to its power and elegance, it can be used by the most inexperienced user to the most seasoned web developer. Since its inception in 2005, Joomla has been 100 percent community owned and operated, and its software has been downloaded more than 16 million times. For more information, visit www.joomla.org.
