EBay (Joomla!)

The eBay company is going to create internal analytical the intranet system for 16400 employees based on a free content management system (CMS) of Joomla. Joomla will allow eBay to create internal social network with groups, communities, a possibility of tracking messages of analysts, functions of creation of personal web pages, the organizations of blogs and forums.

On mnenyu gives to the company a unique opportunity to save the representative of eBay, Joomla on that software which does not represent importance in terms of ensuring competitive advantage of the company: "The companies still should learn to perceive Open Source. Open Source is not just loading and installation of free software. It also contribution to its development. The open source software should be used for those tasks of the company which are not connected with intellectual property, – Oliver Rattsesberger considers. – 70-80% of a company performance are ensured at the expense of standards, products which are not key for business. The companies need to realize that if you work with community Open Source and you make contributions to development of community, then the amount of all components much more will exceed what you ever will be able independently to make. We do not want to encumber ourselves with the self-written code", – the representative of eBay says.^[1]

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