WordPress Rise (And Not Demise) Has Been Automattic

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ith 60% of the CMS market share and 22.3% of all websites, WordPress is definitely a major player in content management systems. After securing $160 million in funds from investors,

[su_heading]WordPress’ parent company Automattic, will be valued at $1.16 billion.[/su_heading][/su_column][/su_row]

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WordPress appears poised for big things. The infusion of venture capital often foretells the sale of a company. Automattic’s founder Matt Mullenweg has also assumed the CEO duties previously held by long-time business partner Toni Schneider.

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Others also believe WordPress is in a position to take advantage of a huge opportunity. Pantheon just spent $21.5M to support WordPress. Pantheon is a platform created to facilitate the hosting of WordPress and Drupal websites by developers and designers. “I believe the Web deserves a truly open platform and operating system to do the next generation of content-oriented business on,” Mullenweg, recently blogged . “I want WordPress to be the best publishing platform in the world, bar none, including the best interface, authoring environment and design tools,” he said. One of the biggest claims against WordPress has been that it

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This is usually the claim of naysayers who are not very familiar with the software. The term “enterprise” generally references the traffic, content, and uptime of large-scale sites. The fallacy of these claims lie in the fact that these issues are controlled largely by the infrastructure on which the site is hosted. WordPress is being recognized as a solid enterprise solution. Celebrities such as Ryan Secrest, and Katy Perry have found WordPress a reliable solution for their heavily trafficked sites. Best Buy, who uses a WordPress multi-site system, allowing each store to have its own local site, integrated into and powered by the main company WordPress site. PBS, MSNBC, Mashable, and CNN are also powered by WordPress.

[su_row] [su_heading]It is inevitable that WordPress’ unbelieveable growth curve will at some point level off. [/su_heading][/su_row]

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Yet it is hard to imagine this occurring in the forseeable future. This is due to a huge community of users and developers and a commitment by Automattic to continuously improve its product.

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