Going in not knowing who Automattic is (although I know of WooThemes)... I still don't know who Automattic is. That seems like basic information I'd expect to see.
Automattic is the company behind Wordpress (and Gravatar and a few other things).
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#23This is a really smart acquisition. WordPress continues to dominate the CMS market. With the upcoming REST API, it's only going to get better. I'm watching niche CMS industry after niche CMS industry crumble under the continual migration to WordPress.
The latest victims are the small CMS vendors who have been selling proprietary CMS solutions to public school districts for the past 15 years, charging far too much money (your U.S. taxpayer dollars!) for barely functional CMS's. The FCC voted recently to prohibit spending federal money on these solutions, a practice that basically created the market, so now every school district in the U.S. (14,000+) are looking around for cheaper and better solutions. A large percentage of them are migrating to WordPress.
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#26Hey all. I'm Michael, a Developer Advocate at WooThemes and now Automattic. I'm happy to answer any questions. As you can imagine, we're all really excited about this.
Does that mean we can expect the WooThemes store to be integrated into Wordpress(.org)? What other integrations can we expect?
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#27Hey all. I'm Michael, a Developer Advocate at WooThemes and now Automattic. I'm happy to answer any questions. As you can imagine, we're all really excited about this.
Congratulations and thanks for going with Automattic and not a VC firm. From Magnus Jepson's blog: http://jepson.no/we-are-joining-automattic/ > We had talks with potential partners, including VC firms and competing companies. This led us to Automattic , who had previously shown great interest in the popularity of WooCommerce. CEO Matt Mullenweg, who is also the co-founder of WordPress, had built his company in the s…
The WooCommerce eco-system relies on our third-party developers and we will continue working with them. We don't have any immediate changes that would affect developers and agencies. We do plan to introduce a new developer program (a re-imagined Affiliated Woo Workers) to help agencies and developers in the coming months but is unrelated to the acquisition and has been in the works for the last few months.
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#28Hey all. I'm Michael, a Developer Advocate at WooThemes and now Automattic. I'm happy to answer any questions. As you can imagine, we're all really excited about this.
Does that mean we can expect the WooThemes store to be integrated into Wordpress(.org)? What other integrations can we expect?
There are no immediate plans to do this but you can expect that we'll be discussing the possibility of different ways we can integrate better.
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#29This is a really smart acquisition. WordPress continues to dominate the CMS market. With the upcoming REST API, it's only going to get better. I'm watching niche CMS industry after niche CMS industry crumble under the continual migration to WordPress. The latest victims are the small CMS vendors who have been selling proprietary CMS solutions to public school districts for the past 15 years, charging far too much mon…
Do you have any links about this FCC ruling and school districts? I'm intrigued.
Re: WooThemes joins Automattic
#30Hey all. I'm Michael, a Developer Advocate at WooThemes and now Automattic. I'm happy to answer any questions. As you can imagine, we're all really excited about this.
Does that mean we can expect the WooThemes store to be integrated into Wordpress(.org)? What other integrations can we expect?
I think it's more likely Woo will end up in Wordress.com and other commercial Automattic enterprises.