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Joomla, in case you didn't know is an open source content management system. It started a couple of years ago when the developers of the Mambo content management system didn't agree with what was happening on that project. Mambo is also open source.
Open source doesn't mean free, it means that the source code is available to the public. However, I'm not getting into that now, if you want more on open source click here.
What this post is about is Joomla as a growing industry. I say industry because there are loads of people now making loads of money specifically because of Joomla and if you took Joomla away they'd have nothing. Okay, maybe they'd have Mambo, but you know what I mean.
In every industry you have a big five and we all know who they are in terms of Joomla; iJoomla, RocketTheme, Joomlashack, Phil Taylor and JoomlArt and each of these companies are turning over good money and it's only going to get bigger.
But to the post; it's not just these companies. There are others that have made and are making a lot of money specifically because of Joomla and some are very very close to the likes of JoomlArt and Phil Taylor in terms of exposure.
The likes of ELearningForce who are charging $79 for a bridge between Joomla and phpBB along with loads of other components, templates and services, are going to very quickly enter that top five. That actually generated this post; $79 for a bridge and they'll easily sell 500. That's nearly $40,000 and I wouldn't be surprised if they sold five times that amount because the expectation surrounding phpBB3 is massive.
But it doesn't stop with the companies I've mentioned. You've got Rochen making a fortune out of hosting along with a few other companies. You've got people that would have never got into the web now making money because of Joomla and to top it all off I even had a customer specifically ask for Joomla recently. If you didn't know because you're so close to it, Joomla is becoming huge and very popular.
There are actually over 100 companies, on the list in front of me, that are making some very good money out of Joomla and I'm pretty sure there are a lot more than that, a helluva lot more.
Joomla is now a very important project for a lot of people and when I say multi million in the title, I really wouldn't be surprised if it was $100 million dollars this year (although my head tells me closer to $50mn.) and I'm too scared to think what it could become it the project takes off they way it should when 1.5 reaches a stable release.
Anyway, the point of this post is to say, I'm putting together the Joomla Top 5 which will be continuously reviewed, to be kept up to date. It's not yet finished because it's not just me about picking five people working in Joomla, it is actually taking me a bit of time and the formula isn't as simple as I would have liked, but it's nearly finished and maybe not so surprising for those in Joomla but over time I think it might be, because it's also going to track up and coming companies and websites.
It's so nearly finished that some time next week I will be able to officially tell you who the five biggest companies in Joomla are. The Joomla Top 5: coming, hopefully, next week.
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