Magento’s Three Milestones

I’d just like to take a few moments to comment on Roy Rubin’s official post about Magento’s 3-year anniversary. Read article here… There certainly seems to be a lot of fascination over the number 3 for Magento on it’s third birthday. Here’s why:

• Magento was released on the 31st of the 3rd month, 3 years ago
• Magento has had over 3 million downloads!
• Magento has over 3 thousand extensions

In that 3 years, there’s also 3 editions of Magento available (Community, Professional Enterprise), and there’s also 3 versions of Magento (Magento Commerce, Magento Mobile Magento Go). Also if you rotate the Magento logo 90 degrees clockwise, the ‘M’ becomes ’3′. OMG!!1!
Before I start thinking with the same numeric obsessive compulsiveness as Jim Carrey in the Number 23, I’ll drop the figures and focus on Magento’s biggest achievement: the Magento community.
The beauty of open source is the fact that anyone can contribute to it, and therefore everyone can feel like a part of its success. Magento has brought together developers from all over the world, and we all have the same goal: to have the best and most flexible ecommerce system available. I’ve been in touch with a large number of developers since beginning with Magento over two years ago, and the selfless attitude of many of the people I have spoken to is remarkable.
If Magento was an off-the-shelf solution it would still be a great product, but without the strength of the Magento community behind it there would never have been the same driving force behind its success.
I hope the community continues to grow in the next 3 years as the Magento product matures and firmly establishes itself in the mobile market. It means that there will never be a ‘finished product’. Hence the tagline: “Ecommerce Software for Growth”…