Joomla is changing the web, there is no one better
sentence to describe what this young FREE SOFTWARE
project is doing from two years ago. We all know that
the web permeates today all sides of our life and
therefore is perfectly comprehensible that Joomla,
been born as a CMS for simplified construction of
sites of all types, is interesting a lot of people
around the world for the incredible amount of its
FREE extensions, that are available through the central
site extension.joomla.org, and for its large development
community that give support and constantly enhancements
of features.
But now Joomla wouldn't not be more considered only
a CMS, whatever are the applicative targets in which
we are interested to use it for. The time of standalone
applications is ending and therefore we should understand
that a revolutionary web application platform as Joomla
is the right solution that all people are waiting
for. The new version of Joomla, currently in Beta2
state, is an innovative and intuitive implementation
of the MVC pattern, a famous generalized programming
architecture that force the developers to write a
more scalable and manageable code and that give to
others a lot of competitive advantages as User Interface
separation, lower development cost, greater reusability
and maximized stability and adaptability.
Joomla 1.5, that's the version number of the new
platform, has been rewrote from the scratch by the
Core Development Team to obtain a very powerful framework
that will boost web developer productivity and that
will maximize the users experience. Obviously the
Core Team don't know what will be the really boom
that this new project would generate on the web but
we can admit for sure that the stable release is attended
from thousands of people.
Joomla 1.5 have the great merit of not attempt to
be a "all purpose application in itself",
trying instead to give users a solid platform around
which can revolve various types of third party developed
web applications. Joomla 1.5 is using moreover only
well supported and diffused technologies as PHP and
MySQL and it join these ones with an Enterprise oriented
vision.
Joomla 1.5 is not compatible with the old Joomla
1.0.X and therefore a lot of people are thinking that
only a few part of already existing extensions will
be adapted to this system. The problem is that not
all extensions, more precisely a lot few, are compatible
with the new version of this framework. Some people
believe that a software, that already do well what
it would have to be done, is already a perfect software
and that there are no reasons to change the way it
work. They can ask for: "Why I should change
my perfectly running system?". The answer is
simple: "Because the time is changing and is
not possible to use again a bicycle to drive into
an highway".
Joomla 1.5 will help developers to implement stronger
and powerful applications that will be available only
to who will approach a new web project using this
new platform. At the same time others old Joomla extensions
, that are not compatible, will remain out of a market
that will have the maximum momentum in the nearest
future.
Many people have talked in those last years about
the end of Internet economy and about a possible crash
of all the infrastructure. Nothing wouldn't be more
wrong. Internet is the future and only now we are
seeing it arriving in our real daily life.
Internet is far from the period in which it was constituted
of simple sites. Now internet is becoming a complex
network of interactive systems and a lot of our social
and economic habits are already based on it or they
will be very soon. Every days thousands of people,
companies and institutions join the big network with
the objective of not only read/made some simple web
pages.
Today we all ask for more interactivity and integrability
of systems that get us capable of live and work in
the new global world. Unfortunately users understanding
is not evolving as fast as the global system in itself.
We all also ask for solutions that simplify this tremendous
competition and that will define a standard to help
people in managing their web experience.
Evolution is not really if it is not for all and
therefore a good solution MUST BE a FREE SOFTWARE
one that people can use, modify, adapt and redistribute
without limits. People need also simplicity because
they wouldn't lose their time in trying to understand
all the technological background.
Joomla 1.5 is offering NOW a FREE and REVOLUTIONARY
web applications framework that with the use of thousands
of external third party applications get users capable
of implement their web place. It is very simple to
install, config and use. Extensions are constantly
growing and will cover all aspects of online activities
very soon.
Joomla 1.5 will be the best choice for every day
web development when interaction and availability
of software would not continue to be limited on a
single workstation. Joomla 1.5 will be the obviously
choice for who will want to start projects with usability
and simplification in mind. Joomla 1.5 will be the
next web revolution for people that are not expert
or guru. Joomla 1.5 will be the New Internet Indoor
for who have never thought that he can do anything
of this type. Joomla 1.5 will discover the Internet
Potential of all people.