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Windows interoperability creates new markets
                                                and fresh opportunities for open source company



Overview                                        “There’s little doubt in my mind that SilverStripe’s
Region: Asia Pacific
                                                product adoption, credibility and growth have all been
Industry: IT Services
                                                enhanced through our involvement with Microsoft.”
Customer Profile                                Sigurd Magnusson, Co-founder and Business Relationship Manager,
Based in New Zealand and Australia,             SilverStripe
SilverStripe is a web development company
delivering open source content management
systems and development services to             Founded in 2000, SilverStripe is an open source web development
businesses throughout Australasia, Europe
and the USA. SilverStripe employs 40
                                                company, delivering content management systems (CMS) and
specialists who work with over 300 public and   development services to businesses throughout Australasia,
private sector organisations.
                                                Europe and the USA. A growing number of developers wanted to
Business Situation                              run its PHP based CMS application, in established and trusted
Following recent commercial success,            Microsoft® Windows® environments. Developing a Windows
SilverStripe was prompted to broaden its
target market. As a result, the company         compatible version of the CMS would encourage broader
shifted its focus to larger government and      adoption of the software. The successful addition of Windows
corporate organizations to ensure long-term
growth.                                         support to SilverStripe CMS has expanded the potential market
                                                for the technology, creating additional opportunities for service
Solution
SilverStripe worked with Microsoft to add
                                                revenue growth. SilverStripe also recently achieved Certification
support for IIS, SQL Server, and Wincache to    for Windows Server 2008 R2 – the first truly open source web
the CMS, encouraging easy installation and
powerful performance in a Windows
                                                application to achieve this in the world.
environment.

Benefits
    Expanded target markets
    Increased revenues
    Additional customer confidence
    following Certification for Windows
    Added value to customers through
    integrated systems offering
    Reduced deployment time and costs
    Enhanced customer experience offering
    Increased software adoption
“At least half of              Situation                                       source community and find securing
                                                                               certain large commercial deals a challenge,”
SilverStripe’s                 Since its establishment in 2000, New            said Sigurd Magnusson, Co-founder and
                               Zealand based website and software              Business Relationship Manager at
customers manage               development firm, SilverStripe, has gone        SilverStripe.
                               from strength-to-strength, picking up a
predominantly                  string of awards as one of the fastest          “Nearly 40 percent of installations of
Windows Server IT              growing technology companies in Asia-           SilverStripe CMS are on a Microsoft
                               Pacific. During this time, the company has      platform, so we knew there was high
environments. These            become recognised as a leading provider         demand for us to officially support Internet
customers are now              of commercial open source CMS software.
                               SilverStripe worked alongside Microsoft in
                                                                               Information Services, Windows Server and
                                                                               SQL Server. Some developers had even
able to confidently            2008 to deliver the website for the             attempted re-writing the application as a
                               Democratic National Convention. Built on        short term fix – however it continued to be
deploy our software            SilverStripe CMS and Microsoft®                 a source of frustration for them,”
on the Microsoft               Silverlight™ technologies, the site attracted
                               3.2 million visitors and delivered 350,000
                                                                               Magnusson added.

platform.                      hours of video in a four-day period.            Microsoft offers a broad range of
                                                                               technologies and solutions, and
                               In its early years, SilverStripe developed      increasingly customers want to use
Sigurd Magnusson, Co-founder   proprietary, licensed software but switched     solutions from multiple vendors including
and Business Relationship      to an open source model in 2006, releasing      Open Source. Microsoft is making
Manager, SilverStripe          its CMS and application framework to the        significant investment in supporting Open
                               community. The software has since been          Source products on its platforms, helping
                               downloaded more than 300,000 times,             Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) meet
                               creating an active community of developers      customer requirements and grow their
                               who have helped to refine and extend the        businesses.
                               base code. SilverStripe couples publicly
                               available open source applications with         As Microsoft continues to invest in this
                               bespoke PHP development to deliver              area, it is actively partnering with
                               custom-built web properties.                    companies like SilverStripe, working with
                                                                               them as they build in support for Microsoft
                               The company’s recent commercial success         platforms and technologies. The
                               has seen its business aspirations grow,         partnerships then work together to
                               prompting an increased focus on large           highlight the benefits found through the
                               public sector and corporate organisations.      improved interoperability, increased
                               To help SilverStripe as it became a             reliability and, ultimately, the power of
                               competitive player in this market, the          choice for end users.
                               company needed its PHP/MySQL based
                               CMS system to run effectively on Windows
                               platforms common among many                     Solution
                               businesses and government departments.          While SilverStripe recognised the
                               Overcoming the difficulty of installation       importance of developing a Windows
                               and reduced performance of PHP                  compatible version of its CMS software, it
                               applications in Windows environments was        had little experience working on the
                               important for unlocking this target market.     Microsoft platform. Fortunately,
                                                                               SilverStripe’s achievements had captured
                               “It soon became clear that properly             the attention of Microsoft, which
                               supporting the Microsoft server family was      recognised a mutually beneficial
                               important to our long-term growth. We           opportunity for the companies to work
                               needed our software to install smoothly on      together.
                               the Windows platform and deliver a
                               compelling user experience. Until we solved     “SilverStripe continues to inspire others in
                               this issue, we would frustrate our open         the New Zealand web community and
raises expectations about what can be           said Jorke Odolphi, Web Platform Architect,
“IIS matches Apache               achieved by a small company with offshore       Microsoft Australia.
                                  aspirations. As an active participant in this   It soon became apparent that many
for hosting PHP                   community, Microsoft welcomed the               members of the SilverStripe community
applications on                   opportunity to work with the SilverStripe       were running Windows Server® 2003 and
                                  team,” said Nigel Parker, Web Development       Windows® XP, which required support for
Windows and also                  Advisor, Microsoft New Zealand.                 IIS6.0 and IIS5.0 respectively. This created a
provides additional               This understanding led to the formation of
                                                                                  new challenge for SilverStripe, which turned
                                                                                  to Microsoft’s technical experts to help
benefits through                  a Joint Development Programme (JDP) to          determine the best way to achieve
                                  help SilverStripe CMS become fully              backwards IIS compatibility.
improved ease of                  supported on the Windows platform. In
integrating with                  addition, SilverStripe was accepted into
                                  Microsoft’s BizSpark initiative – an
                                                                                  “Access to expert Microsoft technical staff
                                                                                  and hosted servers allowed SilverStripe to
Microsoft products.”              innovative programme that unites start-ups      update its CMS product for the Windows
                                  and innovative companies with                   platform and verify it worked well in a
                                  entrepreneurial and technology resources        variety of operating system environments.
Jorke Odolphi, Web Platform       to help accelerate business development.        In particular, the close interaction between
Architect, Microsoft Australia.                                                   the teams was invaluable in helping us to
                                  As part of the JDP, Microsoft delivered         follow Microsoft technology best practices,
                                  expert technical support free of charge and     carry out the work efficiently, and ensure
                                  provided access to Windows and SQL test         that the SilverStripe CMS is fully supported
                                  servers, to assist SilverStripe with the        across modern versions of Windows
SilverStripe CMS                  development process. Almost immediately,        operating systems, Windows servers, IIS
                                  SilverStripe saw the potential for the          and SQL Server,” added Magnusson.
became the first truly            Internet Information Services (IIS) version
Open Source Web                   7.5 upgrade in Windows Server® 2008 R2          SilverStripe has subsequently been working
                                  to play a central role in the Windows           with Microsoft to further simplify the
Application to achieve            version of its CMS product.                     installation process on Windows, and was
Certification on                  IIS 7.5 is the latest version of Microsoft’s
                                                                                  invited in May 2009 as one of the first ten
                                                                                  products to be installed with the then-new
Windows Server 2008               web server technology and has been              Microsoft Web Platform Installer (WebPI).
                                  specifically designed to allow greater          The WebPI was a product developed by
R2.                               adaptability and customisation. It supports     Microsoft to address the growing need to
                                  a range of applications, including those        install open source and .NET web
                                  built using PHP, making it a suitable           applications on Windows servers.
                                  Microsoft web server for the SilverStripe
                                  CMS.                                            Shortly after this, Microsoft developed
                                                                                  Wincache, a purpose-built tool to speed up
                                  Using the new URL Rewriting support             PHP-based applications, and SilverStripe
                                  found in IIS 7.0 and newer versions,            has also been verified to run reliably on
                                  SilverStripe was able to deliver the full       this.
                                  functionality of its software on a native
                                  Microsoft web server, without relying on        In May 2010 SilverStripe 2.4.0 was released,
                                  third-party plug-ins. SilverStripe v2.3.0 was   with native support for SQL Server 2008.
                                  released in February 2009, and for the first    The installer was upgraded to allow users
                                  time, it could be easily installed on an IIS    to easily and conveniently choose SQL
                                  platform.                                       Server as their database.

                                  “IIS matches Apache for hosting PHP             With support for Microsoft’s operating
                                  applications on Windows and also provides       system, web server and database
                                  additional benefits through improved ease       completing the stack, SilverStripe sought
                                  of integrating with Microsoft products,”        third party certification to highlight the
best practices used to develop the               CMS opens up a diverse new market and
“SilverStripe CMS is           software, and the reliability running on         will contribute to our plans for sustainable
fully supported across         Microsoft platforms and servers.                 long-term growth. Performance and
                                                                                reliability of SilverStripe has been proven in
modern versions of             SilverStripe achieved certification for          production websites as well as through the
                               Windows Server 2008 R2 in June 2010 from         recent certification process,” said
Windows operating              Wipro Technologies Limited, one of               Magnusson.
systems, Windows               Microsoft’s global certification providers. In
                               doing so, SilverStripe CMS became the first      “In addition, interoperability between
servers, IIS, and SQL          truly open source web application in the         SilverStripe CMS and Windows Server and
                               world to achieve certification on Windows.       SQL Server enables customers to leverage
Server                         Previously, Microsoft has concentrated on        the investments they’ve already made in
                               certifying native executable software, and       Microsoft technology. For example,
                               the few web applications certified to date       customers deploying SilverStripe CMS on
“We are confident              have not been open source. Another rare          Windows Server have used Microsoft Active
                               element to the certification process was the     Directory to cost-effectively achieve single
that greater inter-            SilverStripe application was written in PHP,     sign-on functionality. In an economic
operability with the           not in the Microsoft .NET programming            environment where businesses are focused
                               environment.                                     on getting the most out of their IT
Windows platform will                                                           infrastructure, organisations are attracted
contribute to further          Benefits                                         by the ability to do more with less,” added
                                                                                Magnusson.
success in the years           SilverStripe has experienced a number of
                               benefits since incorporating support for         SilverStripe CMS’ support for Windows was
ahead.                         Windows into its CMS software. In the first      central to it securing a significant website
                               year of running on Windows, there has            development contract with one of New
                               been more than 60,000 downloads of               Zealand’s largest local government bodies,
Sigurd Magnusson, Co-founder   SilverStripe from www.microsoft.com via          the Greater Wellington Regional Council.
and Business Relationship      the Web Platform Installer, and there are        Greater Wellington operates gw.govt.nz
Manager, SilverStripe          thousands more downloading and                   and metlink.co.nz, heavily trafficked council
                               installing SilverStripe on Windows without       and official public transport sites that
                               WebPI. The recent support for SQL Server         necessitate a stable and reliable content
                               and achievement of the Certification are         management platform.
                               expected to further drive adoption within
                               SilverStripe’s commercial markets.               '“The recent upgrade of the council’s
                                                                                official websites (gw.govt.nz and
                               Securing new opportunities                       metlink.org.nz) to SilverStripe CMS was a
                               SilverStripe’s addition of IIS and SQL Server    major initiative. Our choice to implement
                               support to its CMS has opened up a broad         the SilverStripe solution was based on it
                               new market for the company, allowing it to       being a user friendly and flexible product.
                               more effectively engage with the large           In addition, it was important we could
                               commercial and public sector customers           consolidate our IT infrastructure on
                               running Windows Server technologies. As a        Windows Server and SQL Server. This
                               result, the company has expanded the             approach delivered simplified management
                               breadth of its potential market, creating        of our websites and meant a centralisation
                               additional opportunities for service revenue     of our web server stack to Microsoft
                               growth.                                          technology was possible. SilverStripe CMS
                                                                                having 'Certified for Windows Server' status
                               “At least half of SilverStripe’s customers       is important to Greater Wellington because
                               manage predominantly Windows IT server           it offers confidence that the overall solution
                               environments. These customers are now            is reliable and commercially viable.” said
                               able to confidently deploy our software on       Brett Sangster, communications manager,
                               the Microsoft platform. The addition of IIS      Greater Wellington Regional Council.'
                               and SQL Server support for SilverStripe
Reduction in deployment time and costs         with Microsoft and the recent Certification,
Web PI has significantly eased the             according to Magnusson, the work so far is
installation and upgrade path for existing     just a hint of things to come.
and future developers of the SilverStripe
software. When building or deploying a         “There’s little doubt in my mind that
SilverStripe CMS solution on Windows, the      SilverStripe’s product adoption, credibility
Microsoft WebPI enables developers to get      and growth have all been enhanced
a new SilverStripe website up and running      through our involvement with Microsoft.
in just minutes.                               We are confident that greater
                                               interoperability with the Windows platform
“Web PI makes installing SilverStripe CMS      will contribute to further success in the
easier than ever before. Not only have we      years ahead,” Magnusson said.
overcome the performance issues
associated with installing PHP applications
on a Windows platform, but following the
work done with the Microsoft IIS team, the
experience requires far less technical
knowledge than deploying on Linux or
Mac. It’s a complete reversal from the
situation prior to starting the JDP with
Microsoft and I have to admit, it isn’t
something I expected,” said Magnusson.

In addition, SilverStripe CMS was one of
only ten select applications to be included
in the Microsoft Web Application Gallery
when it was launched in March 2009.

“Microsoft handpicked a small sample
of leading PHP and .NET applications to be
part of its new Web Application Gallery,
and SilverStripe CMS was included in this
group because it is a great product with a
passionate user base. We’re delighted by
SilverStripe’s commitment to working with
Microsoft and its focus on delivering a
compelling experience for its CMS
community on IIS,” said Bill Staples General
Manager, Web Platform and Tools,
Microsoft.

“It has been a pleasure working with
SilverStripe through the JDP. The speed at
which it was able to able to create a
Windows version of its product and go to
market has been remarkable. The inclusion
of SilverStripe CMS in the Web Application
Gallery will extend the reach of the
technology,” added Michael Joffe, Senior
Product Manager, PHP on Windows,
Microsoft.

While SilverStripe is excited about the
opportunities created by its involvement
For More Information                                  “Open source” in this document refers to
For more information about Microsoft                  software that uses a license approved by
                                                      the Open Source Initiative and where that
products and services, call the Microsoft
                                                      software complies with the Open Source
Sales Information Center at
                                                      Definition. For example, that source code
(800) 426-9400. In Canada, call the
                                                      for the software must be publicly available,
Microsoft Canada Information Centre at
                                                      and able to be redistributed without the
(877) 568-2495. Customers who are deaf                payment of royalties. See
or hard-of-hearing can reach Microsoft                http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
text telephone (TTY/TDD) services at
(800) 892-5234 in the United States or
(905) 568-9641 in Canada. Outside the 50
United States and Canada, please contact
your local Microsoft subsidiary. To access
information using the World Wide Web,
go to: www.microsoft.com.

For more information about SilverStripe,
visit: www.silverstripe.com

For more information on Windows Server
2008, visit:
                                                       Software & Services
www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008
www.iis.net/                                                -    Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2
                                                            -    Microsoft® Silverlight™
For more information on SQL Server
                                                            -    Windows Server® 2003
2008 R2, visit:
                                                            -    Windows Server® 2008 R2
www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/u
                                                            -    Windows® 7
s/r2.aspx
                                                            -    Windows® Vista
                                                            -    Windows® XP
For more information on Internet
                                                            -    Internet Information Services version 7.5
Information Services, visit:
                                                            -    Internet Information Services version 7.0
www.iis.net/
                                                            -    Internet Information Services version 6.0
                                                            -    Internet Information Services version 5.0
To download the Web Platform Installer,
                                                            -    Microsoft Active Directory™
visit:
                                                            -    Web Platform Installer
http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloa
                                                            -    Certified for Windows Server 2008 R2
ds/platform.aspx
                                                            -    Microsoft WinCache 2.0
                                                            -    Web Application Gallery
To visit the Window Web Application
Gallery, visit:
www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/




This case study is for informational purposes only.
MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
IN THIS SUMMARY.

Document published March 2009

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Case Study | SilverStripe

  • 1. Windows interoperability creates new markets and fresh opportunities for open source company Overview “There’s little doubt in my mind that SilverStripe’s Region: Asia Pacific product adoption, credibility and growth have all been Industry: IT Services enhanced through our involvement with Microsoft.” Customer Profile Sigurd Magnusson, Co-founder and Business Relationship Manager, Based in New Zealand and Australia, SilverStripe SilverStripe is a web development company delivering open source content management systems and development services to Founded in 2000, SilverStripe is an open source web development businesses throughout Australasia, Europe and the USA. SilverStripe employs 40 company, delivering content management systems (CMS) and specialists who work with over 300 public and development services to businesses throughout Australasia, private sector organisations. Europe and the USA. A growing number of developers wanted to Business Situation run its PHP based CMS application, in established and trusted Following recent commercial success, Microsoft® Windows® environments. Developing a Windows SilverStripe was prompted to broaden its target market. As a result, the company compatible version of the CMS would encourage broader shifted its focus to larger government and adoption of the software. The successful addition of Windows corporate organizations to ensure long-term growth. support to SilverStripe CMS has expanded the potential market for the technology, creating additional opportunities for service Solution SilverStripe worked with Microsoft to add revenue growth. SilverStripe also recently achieved Certification support for IIS, SQL Server, and Wincache to for Windows Server 2008 R2 – the first truly open source web the CMS, encouraging easy installation and powerful performance in a Windows application to achieve this in the world. environment. Benefits Expanded target markets Increased revenues Additional customer confidence following Certification for Windows Added value to customers through integrated systems offering Reduced deployment time and costs Enhanced customer experience offering Increased software adoption
  • 2. “At least half of Situation source community and find securing certain large commercial deals a challenge,” SilverStripe’s Since its establishment in 2000, New said Sigurd Magnusson, Co-founder and Zealand based website and software Business Relationship Manager at customers manage development firm, SilverStripe, has gone SilverStripe. from strength-to-strength, picking up a predominantly string of awards as one of the fastest “Nearly 40 percent of installations of Windows Server IT growing technology companies in Asia- SilverStripe CMS are on a Microsoft Pacific. During this time, the company has platform, so we knew there was high environments. These become recognised as a leading provider demand for us to officially support Internet customers are now of commercial open source CMS software. SilverStripe worked alongside Microsoft in Information Services, Windows Server and SQL Server. Some developers had even able to confidently 2008 to deliver the website for the attempted re-writing the application as a Democratic National Convention. Built on short term fix – however it continued to be deploy our software SilverStripe CMS and Microsoft® a source of frustration for them,” on the Microsoft Silverlight™ technologies, the site attracted 3.2 million visitors and delivered 350,000 Magnusson added. platform. hours of video in a four-day period. Microsoft offers a broad range of technologies and solutions, and In its early years, SilverStripe developed increasingly customers want to use Sigurd Magnusson, Co-founder proprietary, licensed software but switched solutions from multiple vendors including and Business Relationship to an open source model in 2006, releasing Open Source. Microsoft is making Manager, SilverStripe its CMS and application framework to the significant investment in supporting Open community. The software has since been Source products on its platforms, helping downloaded more than 300,000 times, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) meet creating an active community of developers customer requirements and grow their who have helped to refine and extend the businesses. base code. SilverStripe couples publicly available open source applications with As Microsoft continues to invest in this bespoke PHP development to deliver area, it is actively partnering with custom-built web properties. companies like SilverStripe, working with them as they build in support for Microsoft The company’s recent commercial success platforms and technologies. The has seen its business aspirations grow, partnerships then work together to prompting an increased focus on large highlight the benefits found through the public sector and corporate organisations. improved interoperability, increased To help SilverStripe as it became a reliability and, ultimately, the power of competitive player in this market, the choice for end users. company needed its PHP/MySQL based CMS system to run effectively on Windows platforms common among many Solution businesses and government departments. While SilverStripe recognised the Overcoming the difficulty of installation importance of developing a Windows and reduced performance of PHP compatible version of its CMS software, it applications in Windows environments was had little experience working on the important for unlocking this target market. Microsoft platform. Fortunately, SilverStripe’s achievements had captured “It soon became clear that properly the attention of Microsoft, which supporting the Microsoft server family was recognised a mutually beneficial important to our long-term growth. We opportunity for the companies to work needed our software to install smoothly on together. the Windows platform and deliver a compelling user experience. Until we solved “SilverStripe continues to inspire others in this issue, we would frustrate our open the New Zealand web community and
  • 3. raises expectations about what can be said Jorke Odolphi, Web Platform Architect, “IIS matches Apache achieved by a small company with offshore Microsoft Australia. aspirations. As an active participant in this It soon became apparent that many for hosting PHP community, Microsoft welcomed the members of the SilverStripe community applications on opportunity to work with the SilverStripe were running Windows Server® 2003 and team,” said Nigel Parker, Web Development Windows® XP, which required support for Windows and also Advisor, Microsoft New Zealand. IIS6.0 and IIS5.0 respectively. This created a provides additional This understanding led to the formation of new challenge for SilverStripe, which turned to Microsoft’s technical experts to help benefits through a Joint Development Programme (JDP) to determine the best way to achieve help SilverStripe CMS become fully backwards IIS compatibility. improved ease of supported on the Windows platform. In integrating with addition, SilverStripe was accepted into Microsoft’s BizSpark initiative – an “Access to expert Microsoft technical staff and hosted servers allowed SilverStripe to Microsoft products.” innovative programme that unites start-ups update its CMS product for the Windows and innovative companies with platform and verify it worked well in a entrepreneurial and technology resources variety of operating system environments. Jorke Odolphi, Web Platform to help accelerate business development. In particular, the close interaction between Architect, Microsoft Australia. the teams was invaluable in helping us to As part of the JDP, Microsoft delivered follow Microsoft technology best practices, expert technical support free of charge and carry out the work efficiently, and ensure provided access to Windows and SQL test that the SilverStripe CMS is fully supported servers, to assist SilverStripe with the across modern versions of Windows SilverStripe CMS development process. Almost immediately, operating systems, Windows servers, IIS SilverStripe saw the potential for the and SQL Server,” added Magnusson. became the first truly Internet Information Services (IIS) version Open Source Web 7.5 upgrade in Windows Server® 2008 R2 SilverStripe has subsequently been working to play a central role in the Windows with Microsoft to further simplify the Application to achieve version of its CMS product. installation process on Windows, and was Certification on IIS 7.5 is the latest version of Microsoft’s invited in May 2009 as one of the first ten products to be installed with the then-new Windows Server 2008 web server technology and has been Microsoft Web Platform Installer (WebPI). specifically designed to allow greater The WebPI was a product developed by R2. adaptability and customisation. It supports Microsoft to address the growing need to a range of applications, including those install open source and .NET web built using PHP, making it a suitable applications on Windows servers. Microsoft web server for the SilverStripe CMS. Shortly after this, Microsoft developed Wincache, a purpose-built tool to speed up Using the new URL Rewriting support PHP-based applications, and SilverStripe found in IIS 7.0 and newer versions, has also been verified to run reliably on SilverStripe was able to deliver the full this. functionality of its software on a native Microsoft web server, without relying on In May 2010 SilverStripe 2.4.0 was released, third-party plug-ins. SilverStripe v2.3.0 was with native support for SQL Server 2008. released in February 2009, and for the first The installer was upgraded to allow users time, it could be easily installed on an IIS to easily and conveniently choose SQL platform. Server as their database. “IIS matches Apache for hosting PHP With support for Microsoft’s operating applications on Windows and also provides system, web server and database additional benefits through improved ease completing the stack, SilverStripe sought of integrating with Microsoft products,” third party certification to highlight the
  • 4. best practices used to develop the CMS opens up a diverse new market and “SilverStripe CMS is software, and the reliability running on will contribute to our plans for sustainable fully supported across Microsoft platforms and servers. long-term growth. Performance and reliability of SilverStripe has been proven in modern versions of SilverStripe achieved certification for production websites as well as through the Windows Server 2008 R2 in June 2010 from recent certification process,” said Windows operating Wipro Technologies Limited, one of Magnusson. systems, Windows Microsoft’s global certification providers. In doing so, SilverStripe CMS became the first “In addition, interoperability between servers, IIS, and SQL truly open source web application in the SilverStripe CMS and Windows Server and world to achieve certification on Windows. SQL Server enables customers to leverage Server Previously, Microsoft has concentrated on the investments they’ve already made in certifying native executable software, and Microsoft technology. For example, the few web applications certified to date customers deploying SilverStripe CMS on “We are confident have not been open source. Another rare Windows Server have used Microsoft Active element to the certification process was the Directory to cost-effectively achieve single that greater inter- SilverStripe application was written in PHP, sign-on functionality. In an economic operability with the not in the Microsoft .NET programming environment where businesses are focused environment. on getting the most out of their IT Windows platform will infrastructure, organisations are attracted contribute to further Benefits by the ability to do more with less,” added Magnusson. success in the years SilverStripe has experienced a number of benefits since incorporating support for SilverStripe CMS’ support for Windows was ahead. Windows into its CMS software. In the first central to it securing a significant website year of running on Windows, there has development contract with one of New been more than 60,000 downloads of Zealand’s largest local government bodies, Sigurd Magnusson, Co-founder SilverStripe from www.microsoft.com via the Greater Wellington Regional Council. and Business Relationship the Web Platform Installer, and there are Greater Wellington operates gw.govt.nz Manager, SilverStripe thousands more downloading and and metlink.co.nz, heavily trafficked council installing SilverStripe on Windows without and official public transport sites that WebPI. The recent support for SQL Server necessitate a stable and reliable content and achievement of the Certification are management platform. expected to further drive adoption within SilverStripe’s commercial markets. '“The recent upgrade of the council’s official websites (gw.govt.nz and Securing new opportunities metlink.org.nz) to SilverStripe CMS was a SilverStripe’s addition of IIS and SQL Server major initiative. Our choice to implement support to its CMS has opened up a broad the SilverStripe solution was based on it new market for the company, allowing it to being a user friendly and flexible product. more effectively engage with the large In addition, it was important we could commercial and public sector customers consolidate our IT infrastructure on running Windows Server technologies. As a Windows Server and SQL Server. This result, the company has expanded the approach delivered simplified management breadth of its potential market, creating of our websites and meant a centralisation additional opportunities for service revenue of our web server stack to Microsoft growth. technology was possible. SilverStripe CMS having 'Certified for Windows Server' status “At least half of SilverStripe’s customers is important to Greater Wellington because manage predominantly Windows IT server it offers confidence that the overall solution environments. These customers are now is reliable and commercially viable.” said able to confidently deploy our software on Brett Sangster, communications manager, the Microsoft platform. The addition of IIS Greater Wellington Regional Council.' and SQL Server support for SilverStripe
  • 5. Reduction in deployment time and costs with Microsoft and the recent Certification, Web PI has significantly eased the according to Magnusson, the work so far is installation and upgrade path for existing just a hint of things to come. and future developers of the SilverStripe software. When building or deploying a “There’s little doubt in my mind that SilverStripe CMS solution on Windows, the SilverStripe’s product adoption, credibility Microsoft WebPI enables developers to get and growth have all been enhanced a new SilverStripe website up and running through our involvement with Microsoft. in just minutes. We are confident that greater interoperability with the Windows platform “Web PI makes installing SilverStripe CMS will contribute to further success in the easier than ever before. Not only have we years ahead,” Magnusson said. overcome the performance issues associated with installing PHP applications on a Windows platform, but following the work done with the Microsoft IIS team, the experience requires far less technical knowledge than deploying on Linux or Mac. It’s a complete reversal from the situation prior to starting the JDP with Microsoft and I have to admit, it isn’t something I expected,” said Magnusson. In addition, SilverStripe CMS was one of only ten select applications to be included in the Microsoft Web Application Gallery when it was launched in March 2009. “Microsoft handpicked a small sample of leading PHP and .NET applications to be part of its new Web Application Gallery, and SilverStripe CMS was included in this group because it is a great product with a passionate user base. We’re delighted by SilverStripe’s commitment to working with Microsoft and its focus on delivering a compelling experience for its CMS community on IIS,” said Bill Staples General Manager, Web Platform and Tools, Microsoft. “It has been a pleasure working with SilverStripe through the JDP. The speed at which it was able to able to create a Windows version of its product and go to market has been remarkable. The inclusion of SilverStripe CMS in the Web Application Gallery will extend the reach of the technology,” added Michael Joffe, Senior Product Manager, PHP on Windows, Microsoft. While SilverStripe is excited about the opportunities created by its involvement
  • 6. For More Information “Open source” in this document refers to For more information about Microsoft software that uses a license approved by the Open Source Initiative and where that products and services, call the Microsoft software complies with the Open Source Sales Information Center at Definition. For example, that source code (800) 426-9400. In Canada, call the for the software must be publicly available, Microsoft Canada Information Centre at and able to be redistributed without the (877) 568-2495. Customers who are deaf payment of royalties. See or hard-of-hearing can reach Microsoft http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd text telephone (TTY/TDD) services at (800) 892-5234 in the United States or (905) 568-9641 in Canada. Outside the 50 United States and Canada, please contact your local Microsoft subsidiary. To access information using the World Wide Web, go to: www.microsoft.com. For more information about SilverStripe, visit: www.silverstripe.com For more information on Windows Server 2008, visit: Software & Services www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008 www.iis.net/ - Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 - Microsoft® Silverlight™ For more information on SQL Server - Windows Server® 2003 2008 R2, visit: - Windows Server® 2008 R2 www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/u - Windows® 7 s/r2.aspx - Windows® Vista - Windows® XP For more information on Internet - Internet Information Services version 7.5 Information Services, visit: - Internet Information Services version 7.0 www.iis.net/ - Internet Information Services version 6.0 - Internet Information Services version 5.0 To download the Web Platform Installer, - Microsoft Active Directory™ visit: - Web Platform Installer http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloa - Certified for Windows Server 2008 R2 ds/platform.aspx - Microsoft WinCache 2.0 - Web Application Gallery To visit the Window Web Application Gallery, visit: www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/ This case study is for informational purposes only. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN THIS SUMMARY. Document published March 2009